[4] Arrested in summer of 1943 for alleged ties to Germany he was kept in detention along with many other members of Iran's elite.

[6][7] Sharif-Emami resigned from the office on 5 November 1978 and was replaced by Gholam Reza Azhari in the post.

[4][8] During his short tenure, he undid many of the Shah's plans including the closing of casinos, abandoning the Imperial calendar, abolishing the Rastakhiz Party and allowing all political parties to be active and personally responsible for preventing SAVAK to get involved and preventing the KGB backed clergyman from creating and continuing the 1979 revolution.

[5] All of his efforts to reform the political system in Iran, was overshadowed by the Black Friday massacre in Jaleh Square on 8 September 1978, mass protests, martial law and nationwide strikes, which brought the country's economy to its knees.

[4] He died at a hospital on 16 June 1998, one day shy of his 86th birthday, in New York City.