Amir Hossein Farzanegan

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Amir Hossein Farzanegan ( Persian امیرحسین فرزانگان; * 1924 in Mashad ) was an Iranian diplomat .

He completed a degree in mechanical engineering and studied business administration and social policy . In 1952 he married.

Career

He entered the senior civil service career of the Imperial Iranian Ministry of Labor, became an assistant in this supervisory authority and headed the Studies and Planning Department as well as the Undersecretariat. He was sent several times to represent the Iranian government at conferences of the International Labor Organization , traveled in Europe, spoke English and French. Already during the tenure of his predecessor Fereydün Farroh as Iranian ambassador to East Berlin , the plan of an official state visit by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Erich Honecker emerged. He was already in the embassy building at 23 Stavanger Strasse in East Berlin, but was not yet accredited as an ambassador when on February 27, 1978 the Confederation of Iranian Students-National Union tried to steal files from the embassy.

Embassy in plate model like Stavanger Strasse 23

Individual evidence

  1. Iran Who's Who, 1976 p. 167 [1]
  2. Bahman Nirumand , Far From Where I Should Be: Autobiography, [2]
predecessor Office successor
Fereydün Farroh Iranian Ambassador to East Berlin
May 3, 1978 to February 1979
Mohammad-Reza Dabiri