Ali Akbar Bahman
Iranian diplomat and politician (1880-1956)
Ali Akbar Bahman (also Mirza Ali Akbar Khan; 1883 – 1967) was an Iranian diplomat and politician during the Qajar and Pahlavi eras.
Family
Ali Akbar Bahman was a member of the famous Bahmani family. He was born in Tehran as Mirza Ali Akbar Khan in 1883, and died there in 1967. He descended from the family of Prince Bahman Mirza, son of Abbas Mirza. Bahman Mirza (1810–1884) was governor-general of Azerbaijan, and prince-regent for his ill brother Mohammad Shah Qajar and the infant crown prince Naser al-Din Mirza. After Bahman Mirza fell out of favour at court he went into exile to the Russian Caucasus.
His eldest son, Prince Anoushiravan Mirza (1833–1899), returned to Iran, and had a daughter called Princess Malekeh Afagh Khanom (1863 – 26 October 1917), Ali Akbar Bahman's mother. His father was Mirza Hossein Behnam from an aristocratic family from Tabriz, which served the royal house since the days of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. Because of his father's early death in 1897 his mother married secondly Amanollah Khan Zia' os-Soltan from the Donboli family, her maternal cousin, who was a big landowner at Tabriz, and notable at court. His stepfather, a politician in the Iranian constitutional movement, encouraged young Ali Akbar in his career and introduced him to several political figures of that time like Yahya Dowlatabadi.
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