Ardeshir Reporter

Ardeshir Reporter or Sir Ardeshir Ji Reporter (1865–1932) a son to Edulji Reporter was born in a Zoroastrian Parsi family in Bombay on 22 August 1865. He was a secret British Intelligence agent in Iran for many years. In fact, he lived and worked in Iran as a secret British Intelligence agent since 1893. He came to Iran under the cover of Times' reporter. It was he who introduced General Ironside to Reza Khan, and it was Ironside who encouraged Reza Khan to seize power. According to his own will, he was the one, who discovered Reza Khan and guided him in the coup on 22 February 1921. Therefore, he was instrumental in Reza Khan's 1921 military coup and the consequent establishment of the Pahlavi dynasty and enthronement of Reza Khan as the new shah of Iran in 1925. Ardeshir Reporter died in Tehran in 1933. His son, Shapoor Reporter, was also a secret agent of the British Intelligence Service in Iran who served the Pahlavi dynasty after Reza Shah's death.