1. Bahram Aryana was born on 17 March 1906 in Tehran from a noble Georgian mother, who was the great-granddaughter of King Heraclius II, and from a judge father, Sadr-ed-din.
10 Facts About Bahram Aryana
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Bahram Aryana's name was Hossein Manouchehri, which he would change to Bahram Aryana in 1950 and he was a descendant of Sepahsalar Khalatbari Tonekaboni, the noble Iranian statesman who was the leader of the constitutional revolutionary forces and four time former prime minister of Iran.
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Bahram Aryana was educated in France at the Ecole Superieur de Guerre and received his PhD in 1955 from the Faculty of Law of Paris with his thesis "Napoleon et l'Orient".
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Bahram Aryana was 'beloved' by the Kurdish population of Iran from his time as the military governor of Kurdistan.
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Bahram Aryana died in exile in Paris in June 1985 and is buried at the Montparnasse cemetery.
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General Bahram Aryana was a of the French Legion of Honour.
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Bahram Aryana's last published book, was a call for unity against the obscurantist forces driving Khomeini and the mullahs' fundamentalist revolution.
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Bahram Aryana described himself as being an Iranian nationalist and moderate socialist, not a monarchist.
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Bahram Aryana founded Azadegan, a nationalist opposition group which had "developed a full command staff structure and support from all nationalist elements from the moderate left to the monarchists".
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Bahram Aryana combined his forces with not just Gholam Ali Oveissi but Shapour Bakhtiar, Ahmad Madani and Ali Amini.