Ezzatollah Sahabi

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Ezatollah Sahabi
Tehran Province
Majority1,442,217 (57.1%)
Personal details
Born(1930-05-09)9 May 1930
Tehran, Iran
Political party
ChildrenHaleh Sahabi
ParentYadollah Sahabi (father)

Ezzatollah Sahabi (

parliament member
from 1980 to 1984.

Early life

Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in

1979 Iranian revolution. His brother, Fereydun Sahabi, was the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the second in the administration of President of Iran
.

He studied mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering

Tehran University
.

Political career

He was appointed as a member of

Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini on 12 February 1979. Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center. He was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980
.

In later years Sahabi was managing editor of the journal

Nationalist-Religious
political alliance.

Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.[6]

Personal life

Sahabi was married to Zarrindokht Ataei, whose maternal uncle was Mehdi Bazargan. They had a son and a daughter. In April 2011, he was hospitalized in Persian Hospital. On 1 May 2011, Sahabi went into a coma after a stroke. On 31 May 2011, he died at age 81 in Modarres Hospital and his funeral was held the next day.[7][8]

Funeral

Sahabi's funeral was reportedly marred by the removal of his body by plain clothes authorities, the death of his daughter,

Fars news agency denied there had been any clash with police and accused the opposition movement of seeking to politicise the incident.[14]

See also

References

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  1. ^ Mohammad Heydari (2008), "اخراجی‌های دولت", Shahrvand Magazine (in Persian), no. 43
  2. ^ "Ezatollah Sahabi's birthday". Archived from the original on 12 May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
  3. ISBN 1850431981
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  4. ISBN 978-0-375-70630-1
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  5. ^ Ezzatollah Sahabi et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention,
  6. ^ Britain asks Iran to investigate death of women's rights activist Haleh Sahabi, Saeed Kamali Dehghan | guardian.co.uk, | 2 June 2011
  7. ^ Ezatollah Sahabi dies
  8. ^ Iranian opposition activist Sahabi dies
  9. International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
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  10. ^ quoted by Kaleme.com, the website of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi
  11. ^ quoted by Kaleme.com and other media
  12. ^ Iran: Haleh Sahabi dies at funeral of Ezatollah Sahabi, By Mohsen Asgari, bbc.co.uk 1 June 2011.
  13. ^ Mourners At Iranian Dissident Funeral 'Detained'|2 June 2011
  14. ^ Iranian activist dies at father's funeral|Saeed Kamali Dehghan |guardian.co.uk |1 June 2011
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