Ardeshir Ji Reporter

Ardeshir Reporter or Sir Ardeshir Ji Reporter (1865–1932) was born in a Zoroastrian Parsi family in Bombay on 22 August 1865. While working in Iran for many years, he secretly worked as an intelligence agent for the British, spying on the Qajar dynasty. He originally was sent to Iran under the cover of being a reporter for The Times. It was he who introduced General Ironside to Reza Khan, and it was Ironside who encouraged Reza Khan to seize power. According to his own will, he was the one, who discovered Reza Khan and guided him in the coup on 22 February 1921. Therefore, he was instrumental in Reza Khan's 1921 military coup and the consequent establishment of Pahlavi Iran with the enthronement of Reza Khan as the new shah in 1925. Reporter died in Tehran in 1933. His son, Shapoor Reporter, was also a clandestine intelligence agent of the British Intelligence Service in Iran who served the Pahlavi dynasty after Reza Shah's death.