Hossein Makki

Hossein Makki
Member of Parliament
In office
27 April 1952 – 16 August 1953
Constituency Tehran
In office
9 February 1950 – 19 February 1952
Constituency Tehran
In office
12 June 1947 – 28 July 1949
Constituency Arak
Personal details
Born Seyyed Hossein Makki
1911[1]
Meybod, Iran[1]
Died 8 December 1999(1999-12-08) (aged 87–88)[1]
Tehran, Iran
Resting place Behesht-e Zahra
Nationality Iranian
Political party
Military service
Allegiance Iran
Service/branch Air Force
Rank Sergeant major

Seyyed Hossein Makki (Persian: سید حسین مکی‎) was an Iranian politician, orator and historian.[2] He was a member of Parliament of Iran for three consecutive terms from 1947 to 1953.

The son of a bazaari merchant,[2] Makki was an employee of National Iranian Railroad Company,[1] having previously served as a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force.[3] He began his career as a journalist in 1941[1] and was a founding member of the Iran Party, as one of the few who was not Western-educated.[2] He left the party as a leading member of Democrat Party of Iran in 1946 and entered the Parliament of Iran as a protégé of Ahmad Qavam in 1947.[2] He left his patron in 1949 to emrace a nationalist cause, befriendning Mohammad Mossadegh and co-founding National Front.[1] He actively supported nationalization of the Iran oil industry movement and delivered a filibustering speech that took four days to prevent the oil agreement. He later broke away from Mossadegh and the National Front.[2]

He was briefly improsoned in 1955 and spent the rest of his life on writing about Iranian history,[1] most notably the bestseller eight-volumes series Tāriḵ-e bist sāla-ye Irān (Twenty Year History of Iran).[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rahnema, Ali. "Makki, Hoseyn (1911–1999)". Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks. Cambridge University Press. p. 306. ISBN 1107076064.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Abrahamian, Ervand (2013). The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations. New York: New Press, The. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-1-59558-826-5.
  3. ↑ Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). "Makki". Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0815630182.



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