Timsar Fereydoun Djam
General Fereydoun Djam
Iran Ambassador to Spain
In office 1973–1978
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Personal details
Born	1914 Tabriz, Persia
Died	24 May 2008(2008-05-24) (aged 94) London, England, United Kingdom
Spouse(s)	Princess Shams Pahlavi ​ ​ (m. 1937; div. 1944)​ Firouzeh Saed
Relations	Mahmoud Djam (father)
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Imperial Army Ground Force
Years of service	1934–1971
Rank	General
Commands	Chiefs-of-Staff of the Iranian Imperial Army

Fereydoun Djam (Persian: فريدون جم; 1914 – 24 May 2008) was a senior Iranian Imperial Army official,^[1] and the son of former Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Djam.

Djam served as head of the Iranian Imperial Army Corps from 1969 to 1971. 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. After resignation from the army he became Iranian ambassador to Spain for a few years up to 1978. Then he moved to London. 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. Following the revolution he did not come back to the country but during the Iran–Iraq War he was supporting the Iranian army.

Fereydoun Djam born on 1914 in Tabriz, Iran. His father Mahmoud Djam was prime minister of Iran from 1935 to 1939. He attended in military schools in Tehran and Saint-Cyr. Later he graduated from military academy in UK. In an arranged marriage Fereydoun married to Princess Shams in 1937. They divorced after death of Reza Shah in 1944.^[3]

In 2011, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was awarded a gift of £2 million by the Fereydoun Djam Charitable Trust to promote Iranian studies. As part of this initiative, SOAS has introduced new scholarships in Iranian studies as well as an annual lecture series to promote diverse aspects of Iranian studies. 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.^[4]