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This video is the life story of Muharram Asrar Nizami, the last Shah of Iran. General Hasan Tofanian, a 4-star general who was responsible for Iran's military purchases in the last decade of Mohammad Reza Shah's reign; The years when the price of oil jumped, the Shah of Iran's thirst for massive military purchases increased, and General Tofanian became a famous figure in the world, especially among American arms companies. When in 1355, the US Congress published an investigation into the payment of bribes in the arms contracts between Iran and the US, the financial links between the Shah's entourage and the American Grumman aircraft company were exposed. The CEO of Northrop Grumman revealed that in a letter to General Tofanian, he guaranteed to pay a commission of $28 million to the Iranian side in exchange for the purchase of 80 F-14 fighter jets. The international press, which obsessively followed Iran's large-scale military purchases, wrote that American companies sold $20 million worth of fighters to Iran for $30 million, and Iranian purchase intermediaries received commissions of between 8 and 12 percent per contract. Even the contracts that the Iranian government had signed directly with the American side. In the years when Iran had close to ten billion dollars in military purchases in some years, Tofanian, Abul Fatah Mahvi, a close friend of the Shah, and General Khatami, the husband of the Shah's sister, were among the people who received large commissions in many of these contracts. The commissions that the Shah knew about and Tofanian received with the coordination of the Shah. Sources: the book "Memoirs of Army General Tofanian", a conversation with the oral history project of Harvard University, the book "Mirage of a General" written by Safadin Tibarayan, the book "Lion and Eagle" written by James Beale, the book "Fall of the Shah", written by Fereydon Hoyda, the article "Secret Military Secrets of the Shah" , the electronic magazine of the era of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Monarchy", Memoirs of General Hossein Fardoost