Abdullah Entezam-Saltaneh

Abdullah Entezam

Abdullah Entezam-Saltaneh (* 1895 in Tehran ; † March 1983 ) was an Iranian ambassador and foreign minister .

Life

Abdullah Entezam-Saltaneh was like his younger brother Nasrollah Entezam a son of Entezam as-Saltaneh, an Iranian diplomat. His mother was Khorshid Khanum Ghaffari, a granddaughter of Mirza Ali Khan Amin al Dowleh .

Abdullah first attended the German Technical School in Tehran, the Dar al Fonoun, and later studied at the School of Political Science in Tehran. He then entered the foreign service of Iran. His first assignment abroad took him to the Iranian embassy in Washington, DC. In the USA he married a young woman from a respected American family. The marriage did not last long, however, and Entezam was divorced before he was recalled to Iran. His other stations were the Iranian embassies in Bern, Prague, Paris and Stuttgart and later in Bonn. In 1946 he worked with Amir Abbas Hoveyda and Hassan Ali Mansour in the Iranian embassy in Stuttgart . On February 17, 1950, he submitted his accreditation letter to the government of Konrad Adenauer .

1951, back in Iran, Abdullah Entezam became Foreign Minister for a few months in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hossein Ala , under whose government the Iranian oil industry was nationalized . Ala's term of office was to end just two months later, as his government activities were sabotaged by Mohammad Mossadegh with the support of the MPs of the National Front . Alam's successor was Mossadegh. After the fall of Mossadegh in August 1953, Abdullah Entenzam was again foreign minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi .

In 1956 he left the Foreign Office and became director of the National Iranian Oil Company . His most important personnel decision was to have Amir Abbas Hoveyda , who later became Prime Minister of Iran, hired at the NIOC in 1958 .

After the unrest in Iran in June 1963 , Entezam and four other senior Iranian politicians called on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and criticized the actions of the security forces. They demanded that Prime Minister Asadollah Alam be dismissed and that the protesters' demands be met. Alam remained prime minister. For this, Entezam was dismissed as director of the NIOC.

Only in 1978 did a conversation between Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Abdullah Entezam take place again. The Shah offered Entezam the office of Prime Minister. But he refused and suggested Gholam Hossein Sadiqi in his place . Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi appointed Entezam to the Privy Council, which should act in his place in the absence of the monarch.

literature

• Abbas Milani: Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran (1941-1979). Syracuse University Press, New York, 2008, pp. 129-133.
• Lloyd VJ Ridgeon: Religion and politics in modern Iran: a reader

predecessor	Office	successor
Abdul-Vahab Bader	Persian Ambassador to Germany February 17, 1950 to 1951	Khalil Esfandiary Bakhtiary