Farmānfarmāʼiyān, Manūchihr
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- Daughter of Persia, Anchor Books ed.p. 8 (His father, Abdol Hossein decided to use the last of his titles as a surname. He called himself Abdol Hossein Mirza Farman-Farma, and the rest of the family [including Manucher, p. 181-182] received the name of "Farman Farmaian."
- Az Tihrān tā Kārākās, 1994:t.p. (Manūchihr Farmānfarmāʼiyān) added t.p. (Manuchehr Farmanfarmaian [in rom.])
- Blood and oil, 1997:t.p. (Manucher Farmanfarmaian) jkt. (b. 1917 in Tehran; studied petroleum engineering, Birmingham Univ.; director general of petroleum, concessions, and mines; 1958, became director of sales, Natl. Iranian Oil Company; Iran's first ambassador to Venezuela)
- OCALC 7/2018
Wikipedia description:
Prince Manucher Mirza (Persian: منوچهر فرمانفرمائیان; 1917–2003) was the sixth son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma of the Qajar dynasty and his wife Batoul Khanoum. He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran. On his return he joined the military, rising to the rank of second lieutenant and left in the weeks surrounding January 1943. He went on to work in the Ministry of Finance until he was appointed as the director general of Petroleum, Concessions, and Mines in April 1949. In 1958, he became the director of sales for the National Iranian Oil Company. A key signatory in the 1959 Cairo Agreement that resulted in OPEC, he was Iran's first ambassador to Venezuela. In 1979, during the Iranian revolution, Manucher escaped across the Iran-Turkey border with the help of Kurdish smugglers. After fleeing from Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, Manucher Mirza permanently relocated to Venezuela, establishing a new life and a new business (potato crisp manufacturer) for himself. In his later life he co-authored Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince with his daughter Roxane Farmanfarmaian, which was published in 1997. In 2003, Manucher died in Caracas and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, New York next to his brother Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian.
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