Firuz Nosratdoleh

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Firuz Nosratdoleh

Firuz Nosratdoleh , also Firuz Mirza Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III ( Persian فیروز میرزا نصرت‌الدوله; * 1889 in Tehran ; † 1937 in Semnan ) was an Iranian politician of the early 20th century.

Life

Firuz Nosratdoleh was born in 1889 as the first son of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and Princess Ezzat ed-Dowleh, the daughter of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah . He received his school education at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris .

In 1905 he returned to Iran and in 1906 took over the post of Deputy Governor of Kerman . He replaced his father as governor, who went to Tehran that year of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran.

In 1911 he returned to Paris to do his doctorate on the Sultanate of Oman under the famous French lawyer Geouffre de La Pradelle in the field of international law. Firuz Nosratdoleh returned to Iran in 1914 with the start of the First World War and was first Minister of Justice in Hassan Vosough's cabinet in 1916 and again in 1918 . In this context, he was instrumental in the negotiations with the British that led to the conclusion of the Anglo-Iranian Treaty in 1919 . After the contract was signed, Firuz Nosratdoleh became Foreign Minister in the Vosough Cabinet. He was named Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by the British Crown in 1919 for his services to British-Iranian friendship.

Nosratdoleh accompanied Ahmad Shah Kajar on his first trip to Europe when it became known in Tehran that the conclusion of the Anglo-Iranian treaty entailed the payment of substantial bribes to Ahmad Shah Hassan Vosough, Firuz Nosratdoleh and other members of the government and parliament. The bribes came from a £ 2 million UK loan to Iran. The internal political disputes surrounding this treaty, which Vosough's political opponents believe would turn Iran into a British protectorate, led to his resignation as Prime Minister and the temporary end of Nosratdoleh's political career.

After the coup of February 21, 1921 , Nosratdoleh was arrested on charges of corruption on the orders of Prime Minister Seyyed Zia al Din Tabatabai , but released again after Tabatabai resigned. As a member of parliament, he was chairman of the finance committee until 1923.

From 1923 he became governor of the province of Fars . He remained governor until 1924 and in 1925 he took over the post of Justice Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Reza Khan, later Reza Shah Pahlavi , and in 1927 the post of Finance Minister in the cabinet of Mehdi Qoli Khan Hedayat . In his role as finance minister, Nosratdoleh played a key role in founding the Iranian national bank.

Released in 1929 on the instructions of Reza Shah and placed under house arrest, Nosratdoleh was tried and convicted of corruption in 1930. He was arrested again in 1936 and died in April 1937.

After Reza Shah's abdication in 1941, there was a judicial investigation into the unexplained death of several prominent prisoners. Firuz Nosratdoleh is said to be under the supervision of Dr. Ahmadi was released from prison and placed under house arrest in a house in Semnan. In this house, however, he was strangled in April 1937.

Literature and Sources

  • Cyrus Ghani: Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah . IB Tauris, London 2000, ISBN 1-86064-258-6 , p. 32.
  1. ^ Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes : A History of Persia, Vol. II. Macmillan, 1921, p. 520 [1] .

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