Abbas Sami'i

Abbas Sami'i
Deputy Prime Minister
Head of Environment Organization
In office
February 1979 – 6 November 1979
Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
Preceded by Manouchehr Feyli
Succeeded by Taghi Ebtekar
Personal details
Born Tehran, Iran[1]
Nationality Iranian
Political party Freedom Movement of Iran (1961–1979)[1]
Cabinet Bazargan Cabinet

Abbas Sami'i (Persian: عباس سمیعی‎) was an Iranian politician who held office as the third head of the Environmental Protection Organization.

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

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Sussan Siavoshi (1990). Liberal Nationalism in Iran: the Failure of a Movement. Westview Press. p. 103. ISBN 9780813374130.


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