Hosayn Fatemi

Iranian politician
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Also known as: Ḥusayn Fāṭimī
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Also spelled:
Ḥusayn Fāṭimī
Born:
1918, Nāʾīn, Iran
Died:
November 10, 1954, Tehrān, Iran (aged 36)
Title / Office:
foreign minister (1952-1953), Iran
Political Affiliation:
National Front Party

Hosayn Fatemi (born 1918, Nāʾīn, Iran—died November 10, 1954, Tehrān, Iran) was an Iranian politician who supported Mohammad Mosaddeq in his power struggle with Iran’s monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Educated at Stewart Memorial College in Eṣfahān, Fatemi moved to Tehrān in 1938. There he became a contributor to the newspaper Bākhtar (“The West”), which was published by one of his brothers. After World War II (1939–45) he went to Paris, where he received a doctorate (1948) at the Sorbonne. On his return to Tehrān, Fatemi joined the National Front, a party headed by Mosaddeq, and in 1949 founded the ...(100 of 222 words)