Following the Iranian revolution that toppled her uncle, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, she exiled in Paris and involved in opposition activities to the Islamic regime in Iran.
[1] She was the daughter of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of the Shah Mohammad Reza, and her Egyptian second husband, Ahmad Shafiq.
[3] Although her parents were divorced in 1960, her father did not return to Egypt and stayed in Tehran to raise his children.
Later her brother joined her and they shared the Ashraf Pahlavi's residence near Rue Pergolese.
[6][7] In 1979 she began to publish a weekly magazine, Iran-e Azad, which was disbanded in the 1980s.