{{Short description|Iranian politician (1914–2000)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Timsar | name = Fereydoun Djam | image = Fereydoun Djam.jpg | image_size = 220 | caption = General Fereydoun Djam | office1 = Chief of the Joint Staff | predecessor1 = Bahram Aryana | successor1 = Gholam Reza Azhari | term_end1 = 19 July 1971 | term_start1 = 4 May 1969 | birth_date = 1914 | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|05|24|1914|01|01|df=y}} | birth_place = Tabriz, Qajar Iran | death_place = London, England, United Kingdom | placeofburial = | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagicon|Imperial State of Iran}} Pahlavi Iran | branch = Imperial Army Ground Force | service_years = 1934–1971 | rank = 30px General | unit = | battles = | awards = | spouse = {{marriage|Princess Shams Pahlavi|1937|1944|reason=div}}<br/>Firouzeh Saed | relations = Mahmoud Djam (father) | laterwork = | office = Iran Ambassador to Spain | monarch = Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | term_start = 1973 | term_end = 1978 }} '''Fereydoun Djam''' ({{langx|fa|فريدون جم}}; 1914 – 24 May 2008) was a senior Iranian Imperial Army official,<ref>Iran and Its Place Among Nations, Alidad Mafinezam, Aria Mehrabi, 2008, p. 57</ref> and the son of former Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Djam.
==Career== Djam served as head of the Iranian Imperial Army Corps from 1969 to 1971. He was commissioned into the Cavalry in 1934 and had trained in the Prussian Staff College for the Wehrmacht in 1936–37 and served for a while as a mercenary officer in the Royalist force of Spain in 1938. He left the army because of professional conflicts with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and retired in 1973. After resignation from the army he became Iranian ambassador to Spain for a few years up to 1978. Then he moved to London.
To the last government led by Shahpour Bakhtiar before revolution he was proposed to be defense minister, but according to his interview later on due to lack of authority he did not accept the position.<ref>{{cite news|title=Defection delays presentation of Iranian cabinet|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jJZjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eXoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1487,1942898&dq=gholam+ali+oveisi&hl=en|accessdate=5 August 2013|newspaper=The Phoenix|date=9 January 1979|agency=AP|location=Tehran}}</ref> He believed that the declaration of impartiality by army core at the last day of revolution was a betrayal. Following the revolution he did not come back to the country but during the Iran–Iraq War he was supporting the Iranian army.
==Personal life== Fereydoun Djam was born on 1914 in Tabriz, Iran. His father Mahmoud Djam was prime minister of Iran from 1935 to 1939. He attended military schools in Tehran and Saint-Cyr. Later he graduated from military academy in UK. In an arranged marriage Fereydoun married to Princess Shams in 1937. They divorced after the death of Reza Shah in 1944.<ref name=fou>{{cite web|title=Shams Pahlavi|url=http://fouman.com/Y/English_Persian_History_Glossary-Shams%20Pahlavi.htm|publisher=Fouman|accessdate=21 February 2013|archive-date=16 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216182835/http://fouman.com/Y/English_Persian_History_Glossary-Shams%20Pahlavi.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Legacy== In 2011, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was awarded a gift of £2 million by the Fereydoun Djam Charitable Trust to promote Iranian studies. As part of this initiative, SOAS has introduced new scholarships in Iranian studies as well as an annual lecture series to promote diverse aspects of Iranian studies. The annual lectures are hosted by the Centre for Iranian Studies at SOAS and are named after Fereydoun’s son, Kamran Djam, who predeceased his parents in 1989.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Kamran Djam Annual Lecture|url=http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/file76196.pdf|accessdate=14 May 2014|publisher=SOAS|year=2012|agency=AP|location=Tehran|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103420/http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis/events/file76196.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | before = General Bahram Aryana | title = Chief commander of Imperial Army | years = 1969–1971 | after = General Gholam-Reza Azhari }} {{s-end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}{{Commanders of the Iranian Army}}
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