Manouchehr Eghbal ( fa, منوچهر اقبال; 13 October 1909 – 25 November 1977) was an Iranian physician and
royalist
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politician. He was the
Prime Minister of Iran
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from 1957 to 1960.
Early life and education
Eghbal was born in 1909, and his family were from
Khorasan
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* Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
* Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...
.
He studied at
Darolfonoon, and finished advanced studies in medicine in Paris in 1933.
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Career
Following his graduation in 1933 Eghbal was employed as a physician in Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...
.[ During the 1940s he was made deputy health minister.][ In 1950, Eghbal was appointed chancellor of ]Tabriz University
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, followed by Tehran University
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in 1954. Five years later he became Iran's envoy to UNESCO
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. He then taught at Sorbonne
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*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
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for a while and became a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine
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. During this period he founded the Nationalists' Party
Party of Nationalists or Nationalists' Party ( fa, حزب ملیون, Ḥezb-e Melliun) was a conservative political party in Pahlavi era Iran, and government majority party from 1957 to 1960. The party was founded in 1957 by Manouchehr Eghbal on ...
and served as the party's chair.
He served as the minister of health in Ahmad Ghavam
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 ...
's cabinet, minister of culture in Abdolhosein Hazhir
Abdolhossein Hazhir ( fa, عبدالحسین هژیر; 4 June 1902 – 5 November 1949) was an Iranian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1948, having been a minister 10 times. One of his pos ...
's cabinet, minister of transportation in Ali Mansur
Ali Khan Mansur ( fa, علی خان منصور, also known as ''Mansur ul-Mulk'' (); 1886 – 8 December 1974) was the Prime Minister of Iran for two terms between 1940 and 1941 and in 1950.
Biography
Born in Tehran, he served as Govern ...
's cabinet, and interior minister in Mohammad Sa'ed
Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei ( fa, محمد ساعد مراغهای; 28 April 1881 – 1 November 1973) was the 27th Prime Minister of Iran.
Early life
Sa'ed was born in Maragheh, and studied at the University of Lausanne.
Prime Minister
Sa'ed be ...
's cabinet. He also served as the governor of East Azarbaijan
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province.[
In April 1957, he became prime minister, replacing Hussein Ala in the post.]National Iranian Oil Company
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. He was also one of the close aides to the Shah.
Personal life and death
Eghbal married a French
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** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
woman and had three daughters.[ The second, Monique, married a Swiss surgeon and had a daughter, Muriel Pedrazzini.][ The youngest daughter, Maryam Francoise, first married Prince ]Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi
Mahmoud Reza Pahlavi ( fa, محمودرضا پهلوی; 5 October 1926 – 15 March 2001) was a member of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty. He was a son of Reza Shah and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Biography
Pahlavi was born on 5 October 1926 a ...
in October 1964 when she was 18 years old, but the marriage ended in divorce and she married Shahriar Shafiq
Shahriar Shafiq ( fa, شهریار شفیق ; 15 March 1945 – 7 December 1979) was an Iranian Imperial Navy Captain and a member of the House of Pahlavi. He was the son of Shahdokht (equivalent to English term Princess) Ashraf Pahlavi, twin s ...
.[
Eghbal died of a heart attack on 25 November 1977 in Tehran, aged 68.]
References
Further reading
'Alí Rizā Awsatí. (2003). ''Iran in the Past Three Centuries'' (''Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh'' ), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing, Tehran, Iran). (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
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