on 5 November 1978. Sharif-Emami was also long-time president of the Iranian Senate and chairman of the Pahlavi Foundation. He was one of the close confidants of the Shah. Personal life Sharif-Emami was married and had three children, two daughters and a son. For some years he was also the Grand Master of the Freemason Grand Lodge of Iran, which gave him some informal influence among Iran's political elite. Later years and death Sharif-Emami left Iran following the Islamic revolution in 1979. He settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. There he served as the president of the Pahlavi Foundation and later resigned from the post. He died at a hospital on 16 June 1998, one day shy of his 86th birthday, in New York City. He was buried in Valhalla, New York. See also List of Iranian senators References External links 20th-century Iranian engineers 20th-century Iranian politicians 1912 births 1998 deaths Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United States Foreign ministers of Iran Government ministers of Iran Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Iranian emigrants to the United States Iranian expatriates in Sweden Iranian expatriates in Germany Iranian Freemasons Nationalists’ Party politicians People of the Iranian Revolution Politicians from Tehran Presidents of the Senate of Iran Prime Ministers of Iran Rastakhiz Party politicians