Fereydun Sahabi ( fa, فریدون سحابی) (born in 1937 in

Tehran, Iran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

) is an Iranian academic, writer, translator, and social activist. He was the first president of the

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is the main Iranian government agency responsible for operating nuclear energy and nuclear fuel cycle installations in Iran. AEOI is the primary organization responsible for nuclear technology researc ...

and the second in the administration of

President of Iran The president of Iran ( fa, رئیس‌جمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader. The president i ...

after the

Iranian revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

Early life

He was the third son of

Yadollah Sahabi Yadollah Sahabi (25 February 1905 – 12 April 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalization of the Ira ...

and the brother of

Ezzatollah Sahabi Ezzatollah Sahabi (9 May 1930 – 31 May 2011) was an Iranian politician and journalist. He was a parliament member from 1980 to 1984. Early life Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential fig ...

. Fereydun Sahabi was born in Iran in 1937. He did an MPhil in geology and exploration of petroleum from the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...

Career

After returning to

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, he worked as a professor at the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

Political activities

Sahabi was a member of the National Front at the University of Tehran. He was active in the European Student Confederation. He was elected as a member of the

Freedom Movement of Iran The Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) or Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI; fa, نهضت آزادی ايران, Nahżat-e āzādi-e Irān) is an Iranian pro-democracy political organization founded in 1961, by members describing themselves as "Muslim ...

in 1979. After the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

, he was elected as the Undersecretary of the

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and the first president of the

.Melman, Yossi; Javedanfar, Meir, ''The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran'', Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2008
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Books

* Geology of petroleum,

University of Tehran Press University of Tehran Press (UTP) (Persian: ) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Tehran in Iran founded in 1957. It is the largest university press in the Middle East. The press has published more than 5,000 titles in Pers ...

, 2012 * Sedimentary petrology,

, 2008

References

Sources

Etemad newspaper ''Etemad'' or ''Etemaad'' (in Persian ''اعتماد'' lit. ''Trust''; correct transcription: ettemād, because in pronunciation the letter "t" is duplicated) is a reformist newspaper in Iran that is published in Tehran. It is managed by Elias ...

, Interview with Fereydon Sahabi, 1556, page 7, 1986, Iran.
Magazine of mine engineering
* Aligholi, Abbas; Kiani, Ehsan; Samadieh magazine, p. 315,316, 2016. * Neyshaburi, N., "The last collapse of Persians", P. 673, 2013, USA. * Patrikarakos, David, ''Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'', I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012

External links

Patrikarakos, David, ''Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'', I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012

Melman, Yossi; Javedanfar, Meir, ''The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran'', Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2008
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahabi, Fereydun Living people 1937 births Iranian geologists Presidents of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Alumni of the University of London Academic staff of the University of Tehran Freedom Movement of Iran politicians National Front (Iran) student activists Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights