Princess Farahnaz who is very close to her mother, Empress Farah Pahlavi, and her brother Reza Shah II. She is a compassionate woman who pays close attention to social issues especially those affecting the disadvantaged, and is keenly interested in events taking place. Indeed, the initial statement by older brother Reza on his website starkly attributed Alireza’s suicide to the younger man’s despair over — an all-too-blatant political stance that only opened the family up to criticism. Certainly, the shattering fall of his father and the dislocation of exile contributed to Alireza’s depression and pain.
The diaspora community of around me talked politics incessantly, and I remember hearing vastly varied things about the Shah, who lost power in the 1979 revolution. Indeed, the initial statement by older brother Reza on his website starkly attributed Alireza’s suicide to the younger man’s despair over — an all-too-blatant political stance that only opened the family up to criticism. Certainly, the shattering fall of his father and the dislocation of exile contributed to Alireza’s depression and pain.
