Yasmine Pahlavi

Wife of Reza Pahlavi, and attorney (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yasmine Pahlavi (Persian: یاسمین پهلوی, née Etemad-Amini, Persian: اعتماد امینی; born 26 July 1968) is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran.[1][2]

BornYasmine Etemad-Amini
(1968-07-26) 26 July 1968 (age 57)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse
(m. 1986)
IssueNoor Pahlavi
Iman Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi
HousePahlavi (by marriage)
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Yasmine Pahlavi
Crown Princess of Iran (titular)
Pahlavi in 2023
BornYasmine Etemad-Amini
(1968-07-26) 26 July 1968 (age 57)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse
(m. 1986)
IssueNoor Pahlavi
Iman Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi
HousePahlavi (by marriage)
FatherAbdollah Etemad-Amini
MotherForough Eftekhari
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Biography

Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran in the Imperial State of Iran on 26 July 1968,[3][4] to Iranian businessman and leading member of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran[citation needed] Abdollah Etemad-Amini and his wife Forough Eftekhari.[2][5] She attended the private Tehran Community School until the Islamic revolution forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the San Francisco area of California, where she attended Notre Dame High School.

She is a graduate of George Washington University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and a Juris Doctor degree from its Law School. She is a member of the Maryland Bar Association.[3]

She worked for ten years as a staff attorney for Children's Law Center in Washington, D.C., representing the rights of at-risk and underprivileged youth.[6] She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran.[7][8] Founded in 1991, the purpose of the Foundation is to provide health care services to Iranian children or children of Iranian origin regardless of race, color, creed, religious or political affiliation. She resigned from her leadership role and any affiliation with the Foundation in February 2014.[9] In November 2018, she announced that she had breast cancer.[10]

Marriage and children

Yasmine married Reza Pahlavi on 12 June 1986[11][12] in Greenwich, Connecticut.[13] She was 17 at the time of her wedding and her husband was 25 (at the time, Connecticut did not have any age requirement for marriage). The couple have three daughters:[3][14][15]

  1. Noor Zahra Pahlavi, born (1992-04-03) 3 April 1992 (age 34)[16]
  2. Iman Laya Pahlavi, born (1993-09-12) 12 September 1993 (age 32), married Bradley Sherman, an American tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, on 9 June 2025 in Paris[17][18]
  3. Farah Mitra Pahlavi, born (2004-01-17) 17 January 2004 (age 22)

The family lives in the United States.[19]

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