Mohammad Ali Varasteh

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Mohammad Ali Varasteh
Minister of Health
Preceded byAmir Alam
Succeeded byJahanshah Saleh
Minister of Finance
In office
28 April 1951 – 4 October 1951
Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh
Succeeded byMahmoud Nariman
Personal details
Born1896
Died1989 (aged 92–93)
Tehran

Mohammad Ali Varasteh (1896–1989) was an Iranian statesman who held several cabinet posts in the 1950s and also, served as the governor of Isfahan Province. He was also the head of the regency council which was formed soon after the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi left Iran in January 1979.

Biography[]

Varasted was born in 1896.[1] He served as the minister of health replacing Amir Alam in the post.[1] Varasted's successor as health minister was Jahanshah Saleh.[1] In 1951 Varasteh was appointed minister of finance to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.[2] He became one of the members of the Committee of Expropriation which was founded by Mosaddegh in May 1951 to eliminate the control of Britain in Iran’s oil industry.[3] Varasted was also head of the Iranian delegation which had been formed to negotiate this process.[4][5] He resigned from the office and was replaced by Mahmoud Nariman as finance minister.[4]

Following the coup in 1953 which ended the government of Prime Minister Mosaddegh Varasted was appointed the governor of Isfahan Province.[6] Then he was made a senator.[7] In 1963 the protests led by religious figures intensified in Iran due to the policies of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[7] Hossein Ala', Abdollah Entezam and Varasteh personally expressed their concerns about Shah's policies and their potential results which made all of them outsiders in the court of the Shah.[7] In addition, Ala' and Entezam were dismissed from the Iranian Senate to which they had just been appointed.[7]

Soon after the Shah left Iran a regency council was established to undertake the duties of the Shah in January 1979.[8] Varasteh was named as one of the members of the council.[9] Initially Seyed Jalaleddin Tehrani was assigned to head the council, but he resigned soon.[10] Then Varasted replaced him as the chair of the regency council.[6][10] He died in Tehran in 1989.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Mohammad Hossein Azizi (2007). "The Historical Backgrounds of the Ministry of Health Foundation in Iran". Archives of Iranian Medicine. 10 (1): 123. PMID 17198470.
  2. ^ Katayoun Shafiee (2018). "Technopolitics of a concessionary contract: How international law was transformed by its encounter with Anglo-Iranian oil". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50 (4): 631. doi:10.1017/S0020743818000909. S2CID 158553099.
  3. ^ Fariborz Mokhtari (2016). "Review of Iran's 1953 Coup: Revisiting Mosaddeq". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 7 (2): 119. doi:10.5325/bustan.7.2.0113.
  4. ^ a b Alan W. Ford (1954). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute of 1951-1952. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p. 122.
  5. ^ "No. 65 Editorial Note". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Manshour Varasteh (2013). Understanding Iran's National Security Doctrine. Leicestershire: Matador. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-78088-557-5.
  7. ^ a b c d Fakhreddin Azimi (2009). Quest for Democracy in Iran: A century of struggle against authoritarian rule. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-674-02036-8.
  8. ^ R.W. Apple Jr. (14 January 1979). "A Regency Council is Named to Assume Duties of the Shah". The New York Times. Tehran. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  9. ^ Sepehr Zabir (2012). The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D). London; New York: Routledge. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-136-81270-5.
  10. ^ a b Mehrdad Khonsari (June 1995). The National Movement of the Iranian Resistance 1979-1991: The role of a banned opposition movement in (PhD thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science. p. 111. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021.
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