Arteshbod Mohammad Amir Khatami (Persian: محمدامیر خاتمی) (1920 – 12 September 1975), CVO, was the commander of the Imperial Iranian Air Force, advisor to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the second husband of Fatemeh Pahlavi, half-sister of the Shah.

[2][3] Next he took pilot training courses in the United Kingdom and graduated from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.

[3] He was also trained at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, in the 1950s on jets as part of a group of 15 IIAF pilots including Capt.

[5][6] Days before the coup on 16 August 1953, the Shah, accompanied by his second wife Sorayya Esfandiary Bakhtiari and Aboul Fath Atabay, escaped from Iran to Iraq and then to Italy by a plane flown by Khatami.

[14] In addition, Khatami served as the chairman of the board of the Iranian National Airlines and chief of the council of the Civil Aviation Department.

[9] A declassified CIA report argues that Khatami was close to Hossein Fardoust and Taqi Alavikia, and that they were part of a dowreh, or social-political circle of associates.

[2][19] The dowreh, along with familial relations, was a significant element in the political functioning of Iran in the Pahlavi era.