Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou () (1917 – May 20, 2007) was an Iranian (Persian) politician. Born in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

, he served as a two-time Mayor and MP for

Hamedan Hamadan ( ; , ) is a mountainous city in western Iran. It is located in the Central District of Hamadan County in Hamadan province, serving as the capital of the province, county, and district. As of the 2016 Iranian census, it had a po ...

in 1950s and early 1960s.

Biography

Amir Nosrat'ollah Balakhanlou was born in

, Iran. He was one of the two sons of Commander Asad Khan of Talesh. His maternal grandfather, Mirza Mahmud Ehtesham ol-Saltaneh, was the Iranian ambassador to Russia, and was the President of the Majlis in the early 1900s. Ehtesham ol-Saltaneh was also one of the founding fathers of the Iranian Constitution during the

Qajar dynasty The Qajar family (; 1789–1925) was an Iranian royal family founded by Mohammad Khan (), a member of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman-descended Qajar tribe. The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's '' Majlis'', conven ...

. As a young man, Amir N. Balakhanlou completed his higher education and his military service in the Royal Air Force Academy of Iran. In the mid-1950s, he served as the first publicly elected mayor of

. He continued to serve a second term as the mayor, and in the early 1960s, became the MP from

in Iran's twenty-first (21st) round of Parliament (

Majlis of Iran The Islamic Consultative Assembly (), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the unicameral national legislative body of Iran. The parliament currently consists of 290 representatives, an ...

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Funeral Coverage on Hegmataneh NewspaperHamedan NewsFarsNews
1917 births 2007 deaths Mayors of places in Iran Deputies of Hamadan for National Consultative Assembly Politicians from Tehran 20th-century Iranian politicians {{Iran-mayor-stub