Son of deposed Shah's Iran committed suicide in Home

Ali Raza Pahlavi was found dead of a "self-imposed gunfire injury the Boston Police Department said in a statement.

He is stay alive by his mother Farah Diba, brother Raza, Sister Farah Naz and half-sister Shahnaz. His younger sister Laila died of a drug overdose in 2001.

At the time of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Pahlavi, 44, was a mere child on the edge of youth. Since then he spent most of his life to learn the country and culture. He was not able to remain physically attached to by asset of his birth.

He had a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he studied at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Like many of his age groups, he was absent holding only a memory of home, with the additional pain of never being able to go back carefully to his motherland.

In Islam, suicide is believed a severe crime, yet, in the end, he returned the steepest price “or was he a Martyr, a forfeit for a lost generation.

Below is the official proclamation posted on Reza Pahlavi's website:

"With colossal sorrow, we would like to tell our nationals of the demise of Prince Alireza Pahlavi"

RezaPahlavi.org | Jan 4

He was extremely concerned by all the evils fallen upon his much loved motherland, like vast majority of young Iranians, as well as carrying the load of thrashing a father and a sister in his early life.

Though he strived for many years to triumph over his sorrow, consequently he given way, and during the night of the 4th of January 2011, in his Boston residence, receive his own life, plunging his family and friends into great sorrow.

Once again, we are joined with mothers, father and relatives of so many victims of these dark times for our country.

Signed "Reza Pahlavi, Farah Pahlavi, Farahnaz Pahlavi, Yasmine Pahlavi, Noor Pahlavi, Iman Pahlavi and Farah Pahlavi"