Shapoor Reporter [SEP] place of birth
Shapoor Reporter
Shapoor Reporter or Sir Shapoor Reporter KBE (1 January 1920 - 2005) was a British intelligence agent in Iran who had an important role in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état against the prime minister of the time, Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Biography.
Shapoor Reporter was born in Tehran in 1920. His father, Ardeshir Reporter, was an Indian Parsi and a British intelligence officer who came from Mumbai to Tehran in 1893 as the agent of Parsis and developed friendships in the British Legation and began to work for the
, for which he also received £1 million from the UK Ministry of Defence. In a 1976 bribes trial in London, he was described as "Mr. Fixit" and he was said to have received £1 million commission on one arms deal. Shapoor Reporter died of prostate cancer in Argentina in 2005.
Title and styles.
- Shapoor Reporter (1 January 1920 - 2005)
- Sir Shapoor Reporter KBE (1 January 1973 - 2005)