Abdolhossein Hazhir

Abdolhossein Hazhir

Abdolhossein Hazhir or Haschir (also Hajir ; Persian عبدالحسین هژیر, DMG 'Abdo'l-Ḥosein-e Hažīr ; born 1899 in Tehran ; died November 5, 1949 ibid) was an Iranian politician. Hazhir became Prime Minister of Iran in 1948.

Life

Abdolhossein Hazhir was born in 1899. He completed his school education at Dar-ol Fonun and studied at the School of Political Science in Tehran.

Hazhir began his professional career as an employee of the Foreign Ministry in the Iranian embassy in the Soviet Union .

As finance minister in Ahmad Qavam's cabinet , Hazhir was involved in setting up a social welfare organization that later became the royal organization for social services.

Hazhir became Prime Minister on June 13, 1948. Immediately after his appointment, Hazhir was insulted by Ayatollah Kashani as an agent of British colonialism and a spy. Kashani called for violent demonstrations against the new prime minister. Hazhir had been commissioned by parliament to start negotiations on a new concession for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company , which was to replace the concession from 1933. The parliament wanted to get a higher share of the revenues from the oil production for Iran. Hazhir prepared a 25-point memorandum. Hazhir himself did not come to negotiations with the AIOC, as he had to resign as Prime Minister due to the ongoing demonstrations against him. Finance Minister Abbasqoli Golschaiyan of Prime Minister Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei's cabinet conducted the first negotiations with the AIOC on the basis of the paper drawn up by Hazhir.

After his resignation as prime minister, Hazhir took over the office of court minister. Finance Minister Golschaiyan reported to Parliament on his negotiations with the AIOC. He had called for a 50% stake in the AIOC's profits, a new agreement regarding the duration of the concession and a review of the concession terms every 15 years. Prime Minister Sa'ed Maraghei decided that Golshaiyan should negotiate a contract with the AIOC. In the end, an agreement was reached and an agreement supplementing the previous concession was signed by the representative of the AIOC Gass and Golschaiyan. Prime Minister Sa'ed Maraghei sent this agreement to Parliament for a vote. Discussions broke out and Sa'ed Maraghei was accused of betraying the rights of the Iranian people.

On February 4, 1949, there was a momentous assassination attempt on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi . The assassin Fakhr Arai had fired several shots at the Shah, which injured him but were not fatal. As a result of the attack, the communist Tudeh party was banned, although it could not be proven whether the attacker belonged to the left or the Islamist scene.

Three weeks after the attack on the Shah, Parliament approved the establishment of a second chamber, the Senate. This second chamber had already been provided for in the 1906 constitution but was never constituted. The decision to establish the Senate was linked to an amendment to Article 48 of the Constitution, which granted the Shah the right to dissolve Parliament at any time.

The Shah's opponents, who had already organized an assassination attempt on him, saw court minister Hazhir, the “British spy” so hated by Kaschani, behind this policy. On November 4, 1949, court minister Hazhir was assassinated. Hossein Emami, a member of the Fedajin-e Islam who was already involved in the murder of Ahmad Kasravi on March 11, 1946, stabbed Hazhir when he was about to enter the Sepahsalar Mosque in Tehran for an official ceremony. Hazhir died the following day from serious injuries.

See also

• Assassination attempt on Ahmad Kasravi
• Assassination attempt on Prime Minister Hajj Ali Razmara
• Assassination attempt on Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansur
• Assassinations of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
• Hassan Arfa
• Gholamali Bayandor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aschraf Pahlavi : Faces in the mirror . Prentice-Hall, 1980, pp. 79f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gholam Reza Afkhami: The life and time of the Shah . University of California Press, 2009, p. 118.
3. ↑ Gholam Reza Afkhami: The life and time of the Shah . University of California Press, 2009, p. 117.
4. ^ Catherine & Jacques Legrand: The Shah of Iran . Creative Publishing International, 1989, p. 61.