Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (; 8 May 1928 – 16 December 2015) was a son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma of the Qajar dynasty of Iran and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. During the Pahlavi era, he held the post of governor of the Central Bank of Iran.
He was the chief architect of the 1960s Iranian economic boom. However, he often dismissed Mohammad Reza Shah as incompetent. He fled to London during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
He died of lung cancer at the age of 87 in London, United Kingdom, on 16 December 2015.Khodadad Farmanfarmaian
See also Iran History of Iran Qajar dynasty
References
External links The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages Qajars Dynasty Turkoman dynasty of Shahs of Iran
Sources Daughter of Persia; Sattareh Farman Farmaian with Dona Munker; Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1992 Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince; Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian. Random House, New York, 1997.