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Hossein Makki ( fa, سید حسین مکی) was an Iranian politician, orator and historian. He was a member of

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for three consecutive terms from 1947 to 1953. The son of a ''

bazaari Bazaari (Persian: بازاری) is the merchant class and workers of bazaars, the traditional marketplaces of Iran. Bazaari are involved in "petty trade of a traditional, or nearly traditional, kind, centered on the bazaar and its Islamic culture ...

'' merchant, Makki was an employee of National Iranian Railroad Company, having previously served as a non-commissioned officer in the

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. He began his career as a journalist in 1941 and was a founding member of the

Iran Party The Iran Party ( fa, حزب ایران, Ḥezb-e Irān) is a socialist and nationalist party in Iran, founded in 1941. It is described as the "backbone of the National Front", the leading umbrella organization of Iranian nationalists established i ...

, as one of the few who was not Western-educated. He left the party as a leading member of

Democrat Party of Iran Iranian Democrat Party or Democrat Party of Iran (DPI; fa, حزب دموکرات ایران, Ḥezb-e Demowkrāt-e Irān) was a short-lived political party in Iran, founded in 1946 and led by Ahmad Qavam. It was the most important party formed b ...

in 1946 and entered the

as a protégé of

Ahmad Qavam Ahmad Qavam (2 January 1873 – 23 July 1955; fa, احمد قوام), also known as Qavam os-Saltaneh ( fa, قوام السلطنه), was a politician who served as Prime Minister of Iran five times. Early life Qavam was born in 1873 to a ...

in 1947. He left his patron in 1949 to embrace a nationalist cause, befriending

Mohammad Mossadegh Mohammad Mosaddegh ( fa, محمد مصدق, ; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, after appointment by the 16th Majlis. He was a member of ...

and co-founding National Front. He actively supported nationalization of the Iran oil industry movement and delivered a

filibuster A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely prevent decision. It is sometimes referred to as "talking a bill to death" or "talking out ...

ing speech that took four days to prevent the oil agreement. He later broke away from Mossadegh and the National Front. He was briefly imprisoned in 1955 and spent the rest of his life writing about Iranian history, most notably the best-selling eight-volume series ''Tāriḵ-e bist sāla-ye Irān'' (Twenty Year History of Iran).

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