Dr. Raha Didevar was born in Tehran and is the fifth generation of Fath Ali Shah Qajar. He lived in Iran until he was three years old and emigrated with his family to London, England after the Iran-Iraq war.His father, Prince Didevar, died of leukemia when he was only six years old. His mother raised him alone and they immigrated to America. In the United States, after graduating from college, she turned to reporting on NBC, but after a while she left reporting and came to Los Angeles.