Abbas Sami'i (Persian: عباس سمیعی) was an Iranian politician who held office as the third head of the Environmental Protection Organization.
Abbas Sami'i | |
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Deputy Prime Minister Head of Environment Organization | |
In office February 1979 – 23 August 1979 | |
Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
Preceded by | Manouchehr Feyli |
Succeeded by | Taghi Ebtekar |
Personal details | |
Born | Tehran, Iran[1] |
Political party | Freedom Movement of Iran (1961–1979)[1] |
Cabinet | Bazargan Cabinet |
Sami'i came from a bazaari family.[1] A co-founder of Freedom Movement of Iran,[2] he was considered among the main figures of the party's more secular faction and had socialist tendencies, like Rahim Ata'i.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 87. ISBN 1850431981.
- ^ Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 156. ISBN 1850431981.
- ^ Sussan Siavoshi (1990). Liberal Nationalism in Iran: the Failure of a Movement. Westview Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780813374130.