Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh

Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh, born 22 July 1856 in Tehran, was a son of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and a brother of Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan and Mozaffar al-Din Mirza. His mother, Munir al-Saltaneh, was the daughter of the architect to the crown. Due to Naser al-Din Shah's dislike of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza, he was the Shah's favoured son for succession, but on account of the non-Qajar origin of his mother, like his other brother Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Kamran Mirza was not eligible for succession to the throne.

He was educated by private tutors and at the Imperial Military College in Tehran. In 1862, when he was 6, Naser al-Din Shah appointed him as the governor of Tehran with the stewardship of Pasha Khan Amin ol-Molk. He was styled as Na'eb es-Saltaneh, Vice Regent, in 1867 before the Shah's trip to Khorasan and was given the title Amir Kabir, grand commander, the highest rank in the Qajar military, by his father in 1869. He was governor of Tehran 1862–1863 and 1875–1876, governor of Qazvin and Gilan 1878–1884, Mazandaran 1878–1884, and Minister for War from 1869 to 1873, 1884, 1896.

The star of Kamran Mirza's fortunes plummeted, but it was not entirely eclipsed, after Naser al-Din Shah's assassination in 1896. His daughter, Malekeh Jahan, married Mohammad Ali Mirza who was later crowned as Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. During the Constitutional Revolution he established the pro-court society. He was minister of war in 1908. During the reign of his grandson, Ahmad Shah, he was Governor-General of Khorasan from 1916 to 1917.

Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh died in Tehran on 15 April 1929, and was buried in Qom. The Kamranieh district in Northern Tehran belonged to him. He received the Order of the Royal Portrait, Temsaal-e Homayouni, from his father.^{[citation needed]}