Shalva's activities were not political, but the social and political conditions of the time in the Georgian SSR (about 1925 to 1930), in combination with his goodwill, and with his brother executed, Shalva Giunashvili was forced to emigrate from the Georgian SSR.

In 1929, along with his entire family, he moved to Iran, and two years later, in 1931, Jamshid Giunashvili was born in Tehran.

In Iran, Jamshid's father worked as an engineer and participated in the railway constructions across the country (Khorramabad – Andimeshk, Arak – Qom, Semnan – Shahrud).

He has produced more than two hundred scientific-research works related to the studies of Iran in Georgian, Persian, English and Russian.

Professor Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, former President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences in the case of Giunashvili being the ambassador for 10 years to Iran and being Georgia's first ambassador to Iran;[6] "Doctor Jamshid, he's not just an Iranologist and scholar, but he's also is a career diplomat.