text: Premiership and later years General Zahedi was appointed prime minister in August 1953, and his cabinet was declared on 20 August. One-thirds of the ministers in Zahedi's cabinet were army officers. His tenure as prime minister ended in April 1955, and he was replaced by Hussein Ala.
  His final post was Ambassador to the United Nations, in Geneva, where he died in 1963.
  Personal life
  Zahedi married Khadijeh Pirnia tol-Moluk, daughter of Hossein Pirnia (titled Mo'tamen al Molk), and maternal granddaughter to Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. They had a son, Ardeshir, and a daughter, Homa.
  Ardeshir was a politician and diplomat and married Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi, the daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from his first marriage to Princess Fawzia of Egypt, daughter of King Fuad I.
  His daughter Homa Zahedi was a member of Parliament, representing the constituency of the Hamadan Province. She was married to journalist and politician Dariush Homayoon.
  According to The New York Times report a day after the 1953 coup, "General Zahedi married twice, but it is not known here whether his second wife is living. By his second wife he had two sons, one of whom lives in Sydney, Australia, while the second son, an air force officer, was killed in a crash."