Farah was at the Shah of Iran's side when he tried to bring Iran into the modern world. The Shah had granted women social and political rights, including universal suffrage, and the Empress worked on her own to improve the status of the long-suffering, repressed Iranian women.
This modern reform, along with others, enraged the fanatic clerics and the religious establishment, and the rest is history.
The Shah's son, Crown Prince Reza Pahlevi, also exiled into Egypt, completed his higher education in the U.S. He is a Political Science graduate of the University of Southern California.
An accomplished jet fighter pilot, he trained at the former Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock, Texas.
He is married to Princess Yasmine who is a graduate of George Washington School of Law. They have two children and live in Maryland. He is 42 years old.
Prince Pahlevi is a vocal advocate of the principles of freedom, democracy and human rights for his countrymen.
Despite little coverage of the ferment in Iran until recently, the younger generation has been organizing, demonstrating and taking to the streets for some time now for more freedom, human rights and for loosening of the clerics' dictatorial powers. Whether the Pahlevi dynasty will ever return to any kind of power in Iran, no one knows, but it's in the realm of possibility.
Leni