Sadegh Sadrieh (Persian: میرصادق صدریه; (2 February 1925 – 5 November 2009) was a prominent Iranian politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Ministry Office counselor and as ambassador during the Pahlavi era.[1]

Sadegh Sadrieh
میرصادق صدریه
Foreign Affairs of Iran
Ambassador in Germany, Romania and Iraq
MonarchMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime MinisterShapour Bakhtiar
Iran Ambassador in Germany
Appointed byMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Personal details
Born(1925-02-02)2 February 1925
Yazd, Iran
Died4 November 2009(2009-11-04) (aged 84)
Toronto, Canada
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Political partyNational Resistance Movement of Iran
Spouse(s)Mahin Banoo
Azimi, Maryam
Shaikh-Ol-Islami
Children3
Alma materPhD in economics, University of Cologne
Military service
Branch/serviceIranian Foreign Minister
Years of service1930–1979
UnitIranian Foreign Minister Office

He was the last Iranian ambassador in Germany before Iranian Revolution. He also served as Iran's ambassador and foreign counselor in Romania, Iraq, Israel, France, Kuwait, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.[2]

Sadrieh moved to Paris to join Shapour Bakhtiar in support of "Nehzat Moghavemat Meli", Iranian National Resistance movement. He joined Bakhtira's team as Counselor with his accompany Ahmad Mirfendereski.[3][4]

During Bakhtiar's lifetime, he represented the National Resistance Movement [3]Council on his behalf,

In the late 1980s, because of his Iraqi connections, he was appointed to succeed Mohammad Moshiri as Chairman of NAMIR's Executive Committee.[4]

Arranging the 1975 Algiers Agreement was done under his supervision as Director of Iranian Foreign Ministry Office.[3][1][5]

Life and education

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Mirsadegh was born in Yazd in 1925. After high school, he attended Tehran University and got his BS in Political Science.

Following his uncle's recommendation who was a member of the Parlement, he joined the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He started working as an intern in the international affairs department.[3]

His first mission as an attaché to the Iranian delegation was to the Allied Powers in Stuttgart under the tutelage of Abdollah Entezam. Mir Sadegh got his doctoral dissertation in economics with German politician and Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Cologne.[3]

Work courses

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  • 1954 - Receives his first award from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and participates in the 10th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, accompanied by a delegation of Dr. Mohammad Mosadegh, Prime Minister, from Iran.
  • 1957 - He was sent to France as the first secretary of the Iranian embassy in Paris and at the same time was assigned as the European common market counselor.
  • 1960 - Counselor of the Iranian Embassy and then sponsor of the Iranian Consulate General in Herat, Afghanistan
  • 1961 - Sent to the Consulate General of the Iranian Embassy in Kuwait.
  • 1963 - became a member of the Supreme Council of Employment Affairs and the sponsor of the seventh political department of the Persian Gulf. In the same year, for political reasons, he was sent as an adviser to the Iranian Embassy in Bern and to his place of employment in Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • 1968 - Head of the Fifth Political Bureau and as an alternate member of the Iranian delegation to the 23rd session of the UN General Assembly left for New York.
  • 1970 - As Iranian Ambassador to Bucharest - Romania
  • 1974 - Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad - Iraq[6]
  • 1978 - Iran's ambassador to federal Germany[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "گفت‌وگو با مهدی بشارت، کاردار پیشین ایران در بغداد".
  2. ^ "RADIO BROADCASTS OF TWICE-DAILY WEATHER REPORTS- page 5". Science. 67 (1730): 210–211. 1928-02-24. doi:10.1126/science.67.1730.210-a. ISSN 0036-8075.
  3. ^ a b c d e "نهضت مقاومت ملی ایران". melliun.org. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  4. ^ a b Khonsari, Mehrdad. "The National Movement of the Iranian Resistance 1979-1991. The role of a banned opposition movement in international politics, June 1995, Pages 167, 294, 302" (PDF).
  5. ^ Campbell, John C.; Taheri, Amir (1986). "The Spirit of Allah: Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution". Foreign Affairs. 64 (4): 172, 346. doi:10.2307/20042753. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20042753.
  6. ^ "List of ambassadors of Iran to Iraq", Wikipedia, 2021-07-09, retrieved 2021-07-09
  7. ^ Garner, Alice; Kirkby, Diane (2018-10-25), "List of figures", Academic ambassadors, Pacific allies, Manchester University Press, doi:10.7765/9781526128980.00003, ISBN 978-1-5261-2898-0
  8. ^ Fuller, Joseph V; Dennett, Tyler (1936). Foreign relations of the United States, 1921. Volume II, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1936. OCLC 1003303163.
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