Abdullah Rassi (1929–1994) was a Lebanese physician and politician. He worked as a physician in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s and following the election of his father-in-law Suleiman Frangieh as the President of Lebanon in 1972 he began to involve in politics. Rassi was a long-term member of the
Parliament of Lebanon
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and served as the
minister of interior
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between 1984 and 1988.
Biography
Rassi was born in 1929 and hailed from a Greek Orthodox family. He worked as a physician in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 1960s to the early 1970s. Upon his return to Lebanon he was elected to the Lebanese Parliament in 1972 and served there until 1994. He was appointed minister of interior to the
cabinet
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led by Prime Minister Rashid Karami on 13 April 1984. Rassi was accompanying Rashid Karami in June 1987 while traveling to Beirut through a military helicopter. Karami was killed while Rassi and others were wounded when the helicopter was exploded by a time bomb.
In 1966 Rassi married Sonia Frangieh, daughter of Suleiman Frangieh. One of their children is