Hossein Fatemi

Hossein Fatemi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
16 September 1952 – 19 August 1953
MonarchMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh
Preceded byHossein Navab
Succeeded byAbdolhossein Meftah
Member of the Parliament
In office
27 April 1952 – 16 September 1952
ConstituencyTehran
Personal details
Born(1917-02-10)10 February 1917
Nain, Sublime State of Persia
Died10 November 1954(1954-11-10) (aged 37)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
Political partyNational Front
Spouse
Parivash Satvati
(m. 1951)
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Tehran

Hossein Fatemi (Persian: حسین فاطمی; also Romanized as Hoseyn Fātemi; 10 February 1917 – 10 November 1954) was an Iranian scholar.[1] A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1951 to 1953. After the 1953 coup d'état toppled the government of Mosaddegh, Fatemi was arrested, tortured,[2] and convicted by a military court of "treason against the Shah", and executed by a firing squad.[3][4]

  1. ^ A century of revolution: social movements in Iran by John Foran - p. 109
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Moaddel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Nasrin Alavi (2005). We Are Iran. Soft Skull Press. p. 65. ISBN 1-933368-05-5. Fatemi was convicted of treason and executed in 1954.
  4. ^ Ervand Abrahamian (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 99. ISBN 0-520-21866-3.