Muhammad-Husayn Ayrom

Who was Muhammad-Husayn Ayrom?

Sar-lashgar Muhammad Husayn Ayrom was a senior military leader of the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran. He was the nephew of General Teymūr Khan Ayromlou and a first cousin of Queen Tadj ol-Molouk Ayromlou. Only some members of the Ayrums family spelled their surname "Ayromlou" with the added suffix "lou".

Born in 1882 in Baku to an Azeri family, Ayrom began studies in Russia and soon began military training. The Ayrums were originally the inhabitants of large marches straddling the current borders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the district of Ganja. After the loss of the area to the Russians as a result of the first Russo-Persian War, they largely moved south deeper into Persia/Iran to stay with their fellow Shia co-reglionists. Some stayed behind under the Russian rule. . Ayrom climbed up the ranks swiftly, becoming a colonel of Iran's cossack brigade as early as 1901.

He became Chief of Iran's Central Police in 1931. At the height of his career, he was viewed as more powerful than a Cabinet member and Reza Shah's right-hand man. His abuses of his position included graft, framing innocent people and smuggling and seeing what was happening to others he pretended to be ill and left Iran permanently.