Background
Shapoor Reporter was born in Tehran in 1920. His father was Indian Parsi, Ardeshir Reporter, was also a prominent British intelligence officer in Iran.
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Education
Educated in Westminister and Kings College, he graduated in 1939 in Political Science and Literature.
Career
In 1943 he was sent to India to set up the Radio Delhi programs being broadcast in Persian. In 1945 he was assigned to serve in Bahrain, and after one year was sent to China. In 1947 he was sent to Tehran to serve as secretary to the first Indian ambassador in Tehran.
During the oil nationalization in Iran, he was accorded as assistant to the United States. ambassador Loy West. Henderson for three years, during which he had a role in the 1953 military coup.
As a reward, he was offered a position in the State Department and United States. citizenship by the United States. secretary of state for "his brilliant services to the common cause". Then he was appointed as liaison officer for Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.
He became a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972, shortly after acting as an intermediary in a £100 million arms sale from the United Kingdom to Iran, for which he also received £1 million from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. Shapoor Reporter died of prostate cancer in Argentina in 2005.
Shapoor Ardeshir Reporter (1 January 1920 -
Sir Shapoor Ardeshir Reporter Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( 1 January 1973 -.
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