IIRC, Boroujerdi’s father had the same secularist views, and was also a confidant of the Shah. The Shah would be driven to Qom to meet with the elder Boroujerdi.
>>>”IIRC, Boroujerdi’s father had the same secularist views,<<<
The Constitution of Iran during the late Shah specified the Shia (twelvers) Islam (Jafari school of theology). Specifically, the Monarch & the heir to the throne had to be Shia Moslems.
The Constitution of Iran became even more Islamic, per above, after the Shah was overthrown in 1979 (when Khomeini took power) - more Islamic laws have been since enforced.
Notable is that the much vaunted & admired “Grand Ayatollah Montazeri” actually wrote the Islamic Constitution of Iran after the Shah was overthrown, and when Khomeini took over.
Whatever Boroujerdi or his father was teaching for their ‘secularist views’ to the Shah didn’t work. It was all pie-in-the-sky.
The late Shah of Iran has been buried in Egypt since his death in 1980.