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Source: Flaggenbuch [neu92], Pedersen (1971) [ped71]
The flag of the Shah was a square blue flag with a centered
crown
(of the same design as in the coat of arms) with a small square
canton in the upper left corner including the national flag with the
coat of arms.
Marcus Wendel & Ivan Sache, 15
September 1999
In Flaggenbuch, the size of the imperial
Standard is given
as 124 x 124 cm, with square canton of 21 cm.
Željko Heimer, 14 November 2001
Source: Flaggenbuch
[neu92]
Similar to the imperial Standard, but without the emblem in
the
tricolour canton.
Željko Heimer, 14 November 2001
Source: Flaggenbuch [neu92]
Light blue square flag with the crown in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 14 November 2001
image located by Pascal Vagnat, 1 June 2008
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
and
WIPO
Pascal Vagnat,
1 June 2008
image located by Pascal Vagnat, 1 June 2008
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
and
WIPO
Pascal Vagnat,
1 June 2008
A more recent version of the imperial standard is shown on Farah Pahlavi's website, which says:
The Imperial standard consists of a pale-blue field with the
official flag in the upper left corner and the Pahlavi coat of arms
in the centre. At the top of the coat of arms is the Pahlavi crown,
created for the Coronation of Reza Shah the Great in 1926. Beneath is
the Imperial motto:
Mara dad farmud va Khod Davar Ast (Justice He bids
me do, As
He will judge me).
Pale blue is the colour of the Imperial Family.
Santiago Tazon, 13 June 2001
A similar flag (although with the shield reversed) is found at http://en.wikipedia.org
and
WIPO.
Pascal Vagnat,
1 June 2008
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 October 2007
Persia kings standard
It is a light blue square flag with a green over white over pink
horizontal tricolour in the canton and a golden coat of arms in the
centre of the flag. There is however a contradiction. The flag shows
obviously the colours, which have been used, according to FOTW, by the Qajars, but the crown in the
coat of arms is that one of the Pahlavis. So it might be a very early
Pahlavi standard. Note: Source denotes the flag as kings standard,
literally translation from "shah" to "König". I guess however the
rulers thought themselves being emperors.
Cigarette Source:
ALBUM "Die Welt in Bildern
Album 7 : Flaggen der Welt, aussereuropäische Staaten",
edited between 1928 and 1932 according to the international boundaries
in the included map of the world. The flag is depicted in the ALBUM on
p.8, image no.259.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 30 October 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 14 November 2016
A film of the Shah of Iran's coronation in 1967 is posted at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcvw0jvewR0. Unmistakably, it shows the
Imperial Standard with a compony border of angled compartments, in red, white
and (presumably) green. It can be seen at these points in the clip: 0:25–0:45;
17:47–17:53; 18:16–18:18; 23:52–24:52. Here's a
screen shot from 17:48 (detail).
David Phillips, 13 November 2016
I am not sure what the corner elements are. A bit clearer (and better
colored) version of the coronation is posted at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2K7OilsAqk. Note the flag at 13:49. The
central element is, apparently, his imperial arms. The corner elements seem to
be some solar depictions, cf. around 5:48 of the movie. The image above uses the
Wikipedia imperial arms from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Pahlavi_dynasty.jpg
ˇeljko Heimer, 14 November 2016
image located by Bill Garrison, 16 March 2021
At
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/711639178619154717/ in the bottom corner the
roundel appears as an embossed "golden sun" roundel, and the central design
appears to be different, too; and perhaps a lighter blue background; c. 26
Oct.1967 Queen's coronation.
Bill Garrison, 16 March 2021