Yasmine Pahlavi

Yasmine Pahlavi (Persian: یاسمین پهلوی, née Etemad-Amini, Persian: اعتماد امینی; born 26 July 1968) is the wife of Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of the Imperial State of Iran.^[1][2]

Yasmine Pahlavi
Crown Princess of Iran (titular)
Pahlavi in 2023
Born	Yasmine Etemad-Amini (1968-07-26) 26 July 1968 (age 57) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Spouse	Reza Pahlavi ​ (m. 1986)​
Issue	Noor Pahlavi Iman Pahlavi Farah Pahlavi
House	Pahlavi (by marriage)
Father	Abdullah Etemad-Amini
Mother	Forough Eftekhari

Biography

Yasmine Etemad-Amini was born in Pars Hospital in Tehran, Iran, on 26 July 1968,^[3][4] to Iranian businessman and leading member of the Constitutionalist Party of Iran^{[citation needed]} Abdullah Etemad-Amini and his wife Forough Eftekhari.^[2][5] She attended the private Tehran Community School until the rising tensions in the late 1970s forced her family to leave Iran permanently. They settled in the San Francisco area of California, where she attended and matriculated at Notre Dame High School.

She is a graduate of George Washington University, obtaining a BA degree in political science, and a juris doctor degree from its Law School. She is a member of the Maryland Bar Association.^[3]

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.^[6] She was also the co-founder and a director of the Foundation for the Children of Iran.^[7][8] 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.^[9] In November 2018, she announced that she had breast cancer.^[10]

Marriage and children

Yasmine married Reza Pahlavi on 12 June 1986^[11][12] in Greenwich, Connecticut.^[13] The couple had been dating for two years before their marriage. She was 17 – nearly 18 – at the time of her wedding and her husband was 25 (At the time, Connecticut did not have any age requirement for marriage). The couple have three daughters:^[3][14]

1. Noor Pahlavi, born (1992-04-03) 3 April 1992 (age 33)
2. Iman Pahlavi, born (1993-09-12) 12 September 1993 (age 31), married Bradley Sherman on 10 May 2025 in New York^[15][16]
3. Farah Pahlavi, born (2004-01-17) 17 January 2004 (age 21)

The family lives in the United States.^[17]