Ministry of the Royal Court

Ministry of the Royal Court
Ministry overview
Dissolved	11 February 1979
Jurisdiction	Qajar Iran; Pahlavi Iran
Headquarters	Tehran
Annual budget	$40 million (1976–77)
Ministers responsible	Mohammad Rahim Khan Ala, first Minister of the Royal Court; Aligholi Ardalan, last Minister of the Royal Court;

The Ministry of the Royal Court (Persian: وزارت دربار شاهنشاهی) was an organization in Iran that acted as an intermediary between the Shah of Iran and government branches, including the cabinet and the parliament. It was founded under the Qajar dynasty and was abolished after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.^[1] It was extensively powerful during the Pahlavi dynasty, and had an executive arm named the 'Special Bureau'.^[1]

The minister of court never sat the in cabinet meetings, however his position ranked on par with Prime Minister of Iran.^[1]

List of ministers

Portrait	Name	Tenure	Notes
Qajar dynasty
	Mohammad Rahim Khan Ala	1903–1920
	Amin-os-soltan Ibrahim Khan	1920–1921
	Amin-os-soltan Ali Ashgar Khan	1921–1925
Pahlavi dynasty
	Abdolhossein Teymourtash	1925–1932
Dissolution of the Ministry of the Imperial Court (1932–1939)
	Mahmoud Djam	1939–1941
	Mohammad Ali Farzin [fa]	1941–1942
	Mohammad Ali Foroughi	1942
	Hossein Ala'	1942–1945
	Ebrahim Hakimi	? – 1947
	Mahmoud Djam	1947 – ?	2nd time
	Abdolhossein Hazhir	July 1949 – February 1949
	Ebrahim Hakimi	1949–1950	2nd time
	Hossein Ala'	1950	2nd time
	Hossein Ala'	1951–1953	3rd time
	Abol Ghasem Amini [fa]	April 1953 – August 1953
	Hossein Ala'	1953–1955	4th time
	Manouchehr Eghbal	1956–1957
	Hossein Ala'	1957–1963	5th time
	Hossein Ghods-Nakhai	1963–1967
	Asadollah Alam	1967–1977
	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda	1977–1978
	Aligholi Ardalan	1978–1979