Fatemi, Hosayn

Fatemi, Hosayn

▪ Iranian politician
also spelled  Ḥusayn Fāṭimī 
born 1918, Nāʾīn, Iran
died November 10, 1954, Tehrān, Iran

      Iranian politician who supported Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mosaddeq, Mohammad) in his power struggle with Iran's monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (Reza Shah Pahlavi).

      Educated at Stewart Memorial College in Eṣfahān, Fatemi moved to Tehrān in 1938. There he became a contributor to the newspaper Bākhtar (“The West”), which was published by one of his brothers. After World War II (1939–45) he went to Paris, where he received a doctorate (1948) at the Sorbonne. On his return to Tehrān, Fatemi joined the National Front, a party headed by Mosaddeq, and in 1949 founded the newspaper Bākhtar-e Emrūz (“Daily West”), in which he started a vigorous campaign for the nationalization of the oil industry.

      When Mosaddeq (Mosaddeq, Mohammad) became premier in April 1951, Fatemi became his personal assistant and the spokesman of the government. In October 1952, he was appointed foreign minister and soon severed diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom. A power struggle between Mosaddeq and the shah peaked in August 1953 when the shah fled the country. Days later, however, a Western-backed coup led by General Fazlollah Zahedi (Zahedi, Fazlollah) overthrew Mosaddeq and restored the shah to power. Fatemi went into hiding but was discovered and arrested in March 1954. Charged with an attempt to overthrow the monarchy and to set up a communist-style people's republic, Fatemi was sentenced to death in October and executed the following month.

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