head) Chairman of the Council for Support of Mothers and Infants Deputy chairman of the Kaanun-e Parvaresh-e Fekri-e Kudakaan va nojavaanaan (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults) Empress Farah Pahlavi was the head) Direct chief of the Legion of Service to Humanity Person in charge of the construction in the island of Kish Head of the board of trustees of the Pahlavi Foundation Deputy chairman of the Iranian Culture Foundation (for research and publication of classic Persian texts) In charge of the Shah's personal and monetary affairs Minister of court Cooperation in establishing University of Birjand Illness and death Asadollah Alam was diagnosed with cancer in the late 1960s. He died at New York University Hospital in New York City in 1978, less than a year before the Revolution in Iran. See also Pahlavi dynasty List of prime ministers of Iran References Further reading Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol I, 1347-1348/1968-1969, Ibex Publishers, 1993, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol II, 1349, 1351/1971, 1972, Ibex Publishers, 1993, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol III, 1352/1973, Ibex Publishers, 1995, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol IV, 1353/1974, Ibex Publishers, 2000, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol V, 1954/1975, Ibex Publishers, 2003, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol VI, 1355-1356/1976-1977, Ibex Publishers, 2007, . Asadollah Alam, Diaries of Asadollah Alam: Vol VII, 1346-1347/1967-1968, Ibex Publishers, 2014, . External links Harvard's Iranian Oral History Project: Fatemeh Pakravan Alam's bio on BBC Persian Iranian governors Prime Ministers of Iran People from Birjand 1919 births 1978 deaths Scouting in Iran Iranian Arab politicians Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit Rastakhiz Party politicians Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Iranian memoirists People's Party (Iran) Secretaries-General 20th-century memoirists Governors of Sistan and Baluchestan Province Interior Ministers of Iran Burials at Imam Reza Shrine