Ahmad Salamatian ( fa, احمد سلامتیان; born 1941, Isfahan) is a former Iranian politician. He "played a prominent part in the revolution against the Shah", co-founding the Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights in 1977, and was the campaign manager of

Abolhassan Banisadr Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr ( fa, سید ابوالحسن بنی‌صدر; 22 March 1933 – 9 October 2021) was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution aboli ...

in the 1980 presidential election.''

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'', 9 December 1980
Iran's militant clergy and moderates move to end bitter rivalry
/ref> He was deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1979, and was elected to the Iranian parliament in February 1980.

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Joint report
p. 166 He had lived in exile in France prior to the 1979

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(gaining a

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in political science from the

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in 1966), and returned there in September 1981 after Banisadr was deposed and assassination attempts were made against him.Dominique Lagarde and Delphine Saubaber, '' L'Express'', 6 August 2009
Ahmad Salamatian: "Les Iraniens aspirent à un islam du possible"
/ref> He has written for '' Le Monde Diplomatique''. Salamatian later said, in response to the release of the film '' Argo'', that he had been one of a number of Iranian officials aware of the 6 US hostages hidden in the Canadian embassy, who had kept quiet for fear of the radical hostage-taking groups. cbc.ca, 19 August 2013
Iran hostage 'Canadian Caper' 1979 rescue no secret to some
/ref> In 2010 he co-authored a book on Iran's 2009-10 "

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Electoral history

Books

* (with Sara Daniel) ''Iran : la révolte verte – La fin de l'islam politique ?'', Éditions Delavilla, 2010

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Salamatian, Ahmad 1941 births Living people Politicians from Isfahan People of the Iranian Revolution University of Paris alumni Iranian revolutionaries Members of the 1st Islamic Consultative Assembly National Front (Iran) student activists Office for the Cooperation of the People with the President politicians National Council of Resistance of Iran members Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights