Kammala wannan jumla: An haife shi a Tehran a ranar 16 ga Oktoba 1928, shi ne dan Janar Fazlollah Zahedi, wanda ya zama firaminista bayan ya shiga cikin
Juyin mulkin da CIA ta jagoranta wanda ya haifar da faduwar Mohammed Mossadegh. Zahedi ya sami digiri a fannin noma daga Jami'ar Jihar Utah a 1950, inda ya kasance memba na Kappa Sigma. Shekaru bakwai bayan haka, ya auri 'yar Shah na Iran, Gimbiya Shahnaz Pahlavi; auren ya ƙare a saki a 1964.