Abdul Ali Khan Sadigh-es-Saltaneh

Mirza Abdul Ali Khan Sadigh-es-Saltaneh (* 1876 ; † in the 20th century) was a Persian diplomat .

Life

Sadigh-es-Saltaneh was a grandson of Fath Ali Shah . His father was a nephew and master of ceremonies of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah . He graduated from Muzzafary College, Tabriz . In 1897 he was appointed chamberlain at the court of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah. In 1899 he entered the foreign service and became imperial representative at the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in London . In 1910 he was appointed counselor at the embassy in London. In 1915 he was appointed Ministre plénipotentiaire . In 1919, Abdul Ali Khan, Sadigh-es-Saltaneh, Ministre plénipotentiaire was in Washington, DC , where he delivered a greeting from Ahmad Shah Qajar to the 15th International Congress against Alcoholism from September 21 to 26, 1920.

During his tenure in Berlin, alleged subsidiary agreements to the Anglo-Iranian treaty of 1919 were alleged, which Sadigh-es-Saltaneh denied.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Asia, Volume 19 , American Asiatic Association, Asia Magazine, 1919
2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030305738 Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism: held at Washington, DC, USA, September 21-26, 1920
3. ↑ The New York Times , September 5, 1920 The Persian Minister , Sadigh-es-Saltaneh, denied, in a statement tonight, dispatches from Berlin announcing the discovery of what to be an authentic copy of a secret treaty made by Persia and Great Britain in 1919. "There is positively no foundation for the report," the Minister said. "The onoly treaty entered into by Persia and Great Britain wasa signed on Aug. 9, 1919, and received the fullest publicity at the time. Tis treaty, however, recently has been temporarliy abrogated until it can be submitted to the Meduliss, the Persian law-making and treaty-making body, to be called in session in a very short time. " (PDF)
4. ↑ Ahmad Mahrad, The German-Persian Relations from 1918-1933, Lang, 1979 - 617 pp., P. 61

predecessor	Office	successor
Mirza Malkam Khan	Persian Ambassador to London 1914 - August 8, 1919
Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab	Persian Ambassador to Washington DC August 8, 1919	Hossein Ala
Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab	Persian Ambassador in Berlin September 5, 1920	Abol Qassem Nadschm