Mostafa Fateh ( fa, مصطفی فاتح, Moṣṭafā Fāteḥ) was an Iranian economist and

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

politician who led the Comrades Party in the 1940s. From 1921 to 1951, Fateh served in the

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia (Iran). The British government purchased 51% of the company in 1914, gaining a controlling number ...

(APOC) and is noted as the company's highest-ranking Iranian employee for decades.

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1896 births 1978 deaths Columbia University alumni Iranian bankers Iranian socialists Comrades Party politicians {{Iran-bio-stub