Iraj Eskandari

Iraj Eskandari
Minister of Trade, Crafts and Arts
In office
1 August 1946 – 16 October 1946
Prime MinisterAhmad Qavam
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office
6 March 1944 – 12 March 1946
ConstituencySari[1]
Personal details
Born1907[1]
Tehran, Sublime State of Persia[1]
Died30 April 1985(1985-04-30) (aged 77–78)[1]
Leipzig, East Germany[1]
NationalityIranian
Political partyTudeh Party
Other political
affiliations		Revolutionary Republican Party of Iran[2]
RelativesSoleiman Eskandari (uncle)
Abbas Eskandari (cousin)[3]

Iraj Eskandari (Persian: ایرج اسکندری‎; 1907–1985) was an Iranian communist politician. A Qajar prince, Eskandari received French education.[4] He was the first general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran and a member of parliament.[5] In the summer of 1946 he was named a Minister of Commerce and Industry in Qavam's coalition cabinet.[6]

He belonged to the "group of fifty-three".[7] Eskandari was identified at the time as the leader of the dominant, moderate faction in the party leadership, along with Reza Radmanesh.[8]

  1. ^ a b c d e Chaqueri, Cosroe (December 15, 1998) [January 19, 2012]. "ESKANDARĪ, ĪRAJ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 6. Vol. VIII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 604–606. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  2. ^ Shahibzadeh, Yadullah (2019). Marxism and Left-Wing Politics in Europe and Iran. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 89. ISBN 978-3-319-92521-9.
  3. ^ Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 0520922905.
  4. ^ Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. p. 75
  5. ^ Ladjevardi, Habib. Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1985. p. 56
  6. ^ Ladjevardi, Habib. Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1985. p. 141
  7. ^ Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. p. 18
  8. ^ Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. pp. 16, 24