Mehdi Jangravi

Reza Shah was born in Alasht, Savadkuh of Mazandaran, 1877. His father, AbbasAli Khan was a member of Savadkuh forces, and his grandfather, MoradAli khan had lost his life in Herat war in 1856. His mother, Nushafarin was the fifth wife of AbbasAli Khan who bore only Reza Khan.

Subsequent to her husband's death, Nushafarin came to his relatives to Tehran, and married again to Jafar who by her first wife had a son, Hadicjan,   later known as Hadi Atabay.

Reza Khan's first marriage was to his cousin, Maryam. He lived with her for nine years and on the birth of her daughter, Hamdam, later known as Hamdam-os-saltaneh, lost her life. Later Hamdam married to Hadi Atabay, and it was an excuse for the permanent presence of Atabays in the court.

Reza Khan's second wife was Taj-ol-moluk, daughter of Brigadier general Teimur Khan Airemlu, a Cacausian officer. At this time Reza Khan was a major. She bore him four children: Shams (1917), Mohammad Reza and Ashraf (1919) and AliReza (1922).

After Reza Shah, Taj-ol-Moluk married GholamHossein Divani of an influential Shirazi family who became a member of Majlis very soon.

Again, Reza Shahh decided to marry a third wife, daughter of a Qajar dignitary, Eissa Khan Maj-os-Saltaneh AmirSoleimani, Turan, and have links to Qajar family. But this marriage did not last long. She got her divorce two years later, and did not marry until Reza Shah's death and lived with her only child, prince GholamReza. Then she married to a rich merchant, Zabihollah Malekpur.

Yet Reza Khan still wanted to have a forth marriage. So he married a  daughter of Gholamali Mirza Mojall-od-dowleh, Esmat-ol-Moluk Dowlatshahi. He had four sons and one daughter by her: Abdoreza (1924), AhmadReza (1925), MahmudReza (1926), Fatemeh (1928), and HamidReza (1935). Esmat-ol-moluk followed Reza Shah to Mauritius, and returned after a few months. She did not meddle in political questions, but used her influence to appoint her relatives in money making offices. She remained in Iran after Islamic Revolution and died in her ninety in 1995.