Karim Sanjabi
Karim Sanjabi | |
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Member of the Parliament | |
In office 27 April 1952 – 16 August 1953 | |
Constituency | Kermanshah |
Minister of Culture | |
In office 28 April 1951 – 6 May 1951 | |
Prime Minister | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
Preceded by | Mahmoud Mehran |
Succeeded by | Mahmoud Hessabi |
Personal details | |
Born | Sorbonne University, Faculty of Law | 11 September 1905
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Karim Sanjabi (Persian: کریم سنجابی; 11 September 1905 – 4 July 1995) was an Iranian politician of National Front.
Early life
He was born in
Career
Sanjabi and
As the general secretary of the National Front during the
After the overthrow of the monarchy on 11 February 1979, Khomeini "explicitly refused to put the same word, democracy, into either the title of the Republic or its constitution."
Attacks and arrests
Sanjabi's house in Tehran was bombed on 8 April 1978.[5] The underground committee for revenge, a state-financed organization, proclaimed the responsibility of the bombing.[5] He was arrested on 11 November 1978 and freed on 6 December.[5]
Personal life
Sanjabi was married to Fakhrolmolouk Ardalan Sanjabi (7 September 1921 - 21 February 2011) and had four children, three sons and a daughter. Khosrow, Parviz, Saeed and Maryam.[10]
Later years and death
Sanjabi left Iran in 1982 and went to Paris.[11] Later he settled in the US.[11][12] He died on 4 July 1995 at his home in Carbondale, Illinois, at the age of 89.[2]
References
- ^ Social Security Death Index: Karim B Sanjabi
- ^ a b c Saxon, Wolfang (7 July 1995). "Karim Sanjabi, Politician, 90, Foe of Shah and Islamic Militants". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ S2CID 154201459. Archived from the original(PDF) on 29 May 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-19-504258-0.
- ^ JSTOR 4310346.
- JSTOR 4283563.
- ^ a b Modern Iran Nikki R. Keddie, Yann Richard p. 233
- ^ ISBN 978-3-319-94406-7.
- ^ a b Rubin, Barry (1980). Paved with Good Intentions (PDF). New York: Penguin Books. p. 287. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- ^ "Fakhrolmolouk Sanjabi". The Southern. Carbondale. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Karim Sanjabi". Sarasota Herald Tribune. 7 July 1995. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ "Sanjabi, Karim (Dr.) (1904 - )". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
Sources
- Siavoshi, Sussan, Liberal Nationalism in Iran: The Failure of a Movement, Westview Press, 1990.
External links
- Iranian National Front
- Media related to Karim Sanjabi at Wikimedia Commons