Yasmine Pahlavi (, née Etemad-Amini, ; born July 26, 1968) is an Iranian attorney who is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the former crown prince of the Imperial State of Iran.
Biography Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran in the Imperial State of Iran on July 26, 1968, to Iranian businessman and leading member of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran Abdollah Etemad-Amini and his wife Forough Eftekhari. She attended the private Tehran Community School until the Islamic revolution forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the San Francisco area of California, where she attended Notre Dame High School.
She is a graduate of George Washington University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, and a Juris Doctor degree from its Law School. She is a member of the Maryland Bar Association.
She worked for ten years as a staff attorney for Children's Law Center in Washington, D.C., representing the rights of at-risk and underprivileged youth. She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran. Founded in 1991, the purpose of the Foundation is to provide health care services to Iranian children or children of Iranian origin regardless of race, color, creed, religious or political affiliation. She resigned from her leadership role and any affiliation with the Foundation in February 2014. In November 2018, she announced that she had breast cancer.
Marriage and children
Yasmine married Reza Pahlavi on June 12, 1986, in Greenwich, Connecticut. The couple have three daughters: Noor Zahra, Iman Laya, and Farah Mitra. Pahlavi and her family live in the United States.
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