Hojabr Yazdani was a Baha’i who was serving Baha’ism in the Pahlavi court

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     Bahaismiran:

He was the offspring of Reza Qoli and born in Semnan city, Sangsar in 1313 S.H. He was of the important elements in the economic scene of Pahlavi regime. He became really wealthy supported by Baha’is and the Pahlavi court. It isn’t exaggerated to be said that Yazdani, Sabet Pasal and Ayadi were three influential elements in the Iranian economy. They were always following the deviant cult of Baha’ism aims. Farah Pahlavi’s mother has described him so:

    

      “Hojabr Yazdani was of the friends and relatives of Shams Pahlavi. I have constantly seen Hojabr having fat face ebbing heaving and short in Lahr Shahr palace parties. To me, he resembled to pumpkin from both sides two hands had stuck out! He was wearing expensive rings. One of the rings was diamond cost five million dollars! (The diamond was one of 20 great ones in the world discovered in one of the South African mines purched by Hojabr in a cut-rate in London.)

     Hojabr studied elementary school from the first to fifth grades in Tehran, Zand school and the sixth grade in Jamshid Jam school. He went to Firouz Bahram high school and got his diploma in Modarres high school.

     His father was a naive herdsman and; for a period of time, he served in Reza Khan army as a governmental partisan.

     Hojabr got married twice. Once in 1331, he got married with a Baha’i called Bahmaneh Derakhshani in Baha’i custom and second time he got married with Fatimeh Jalali who was Muslim on Farvardin, 1345; but their marriage document was issued by the Baha’is. Yazdani had three sons called Kiyoumars, Nader and Kaweh and three daughter called Leyli, Nasrin and Katayoun. He bestowed the shares of agricultural and industrial and animal husbanary companies in Sangsar, Gorgan, ZArand in Saweh city and Tehran to his offspring in order not to pay taxes.

     Like his father, Hoajbr started his job as animal husbandery in Sangsar. Gradually, he bought animals and increased them. Then he was supported by the Baha’is, the Pahlavi court (Abdul Reza, Mahmoud Reza and Shams Pahlavi) and Abdul Karim Ayadi (the king’s special physician) and gained a legendary wealth.

     In his memoirs, Hussein Fardoust writes about Hojabr Yazdani: “Hojabr Yazdani turned to a power supported by Ayadi. He possessed expansive lands in Bakhtaran, Mazandaran, Isfahan and etc. it was obvious for me that all those wealth belonged to Baha’is. Yazdani transacted for them but with his name.”

     Hojabr tried to attract Shah, Farah and Pahlavi attentions to be more influential. So, he was sending priceless gifts in various ceremonies, celebrations and feasts to achieve his goals.

     Hojabr was trying to expand his influence more in the court and; in fact, to strengthen Baha’ism by extravagance for the court and the people who scenes of the Pahlavi regime.

 

     He gradually entered into banking system scene supported by Ayadi and misused illegal loans to gain wealth. At last, after disagreement of the central bank chief and the chairman of Melli Bank and one of his staff called Anhari he encountered a serious problem. He was imprisoned along with several notorious people by Pahlavi regime in a deceptive measure. After the victory of Islamic Revolution on Bahman, 1357, the prison gates were opened and the prisoners got free. He escaped aboard. He was living in San Jose city, Casta Rica and died and buried there on Farvardin, 1389 S.H.

 

    

 

 

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