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.

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.

[2] He believed that the declaration of impartiality by army core at the last day of revolution was a betrayal.

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.