The coronation of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba, the shah and shahbanu of Iran took place on 26 October 1967, on the 48th birthday of the Shah, in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi placed the Pahlavi Crown on himself and crowned his wife Farah Pahlavi. Farah became the first and only woman to be crowned as the Empress consort of Iran as well as the first crowned Muslim woman.
Following Reza Shah's abdication after the Anglo-Soviet invasion in 1941, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took the oath of office in the National Consultative Assembly and became the Shah of Iran, the original coronation ceremony was postponed at the request of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi himself. This meant that the coronation ceremony of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi took place 26 years after the beginning of his reign.
As of 2026, although Mohammad Reza Pahlavi died in 1980, there hasn't been a more recent coronation due to the overthrowing of the Pahlavi dynasty in the Islamic Revolution. Reza Pahlavi remains the titular Crown Prince. The imperial crowns, part of the Iranian National Jewels, are currently on display in the Treasury of National Jewels.
On 26 October 1967, the 48th anniversary of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's birth, the Shah crowned himself and his wife Farah in the Salam Hall of the Golestan Palace. After the coronation, he appointed his wife as regent ahead of his son if the Shah's reign ended.
Before the Shah crowned Farah Pahlavi, the Shah said:
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi requested a change in the constitution to give him the right to appoint the regent of Iran, to make the legal age for the crown prince to ascend to the throne twenty, and to keep the regent at the head of the country until the crown prince reaches the age of twenty. On 1 September 1961, the afore mentioned changes to the constitution were ratified.
The Shah said quote:
The coronation took place seven months after Mohammad Mossadegh, the prime minister of Iran from 1951 until he deposed in the 1953 coup d'état, had just passed away on 5 March. Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani had written "Requiem for the Tree" for Mossadegh's death, which was published in the magazine Sokhan in May 1967. At the same time as the coronation, the allegorical play of heritage and the banquet of Bahram Beyzai's work, which depicted the situation in Iran in allegorical figures such as "Sheban" and "Dehbashi", was staged in the 16th of Shahrivar Hall, which had caused reactions as well.