Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei (; 28 April 1881 – 1 November 1973) was the 23rd
Prime Minister of Iran
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.
Early life
Sa'ed was born in
Maragheh
Maragheh () is a city in the Central District (Maragheh County), Central District of Maragheh County, East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Maragheh is on the bank of ...
, and studied at the
University of Lausanne
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.
Prime minister
Sa'ed became prime minister after the fall of
Ali Soheili
Ali Soheili (; 1895 – 1 May 1958) was an Iranian diplomat. He served as Prime Minister of Iran for two terms in the early 1940s.
Biography
Soheili was born in Tabriz in 1895. He studied at Saint Louis school in Tehran.
Soheili served as p ...
's cabinet in 1943.
Iran-Russia relations fell to low levels during his government after Sa'ed refused to entertain a Soviet demand for an oil concession in Soviet-occupied Northern Iran.
Sergei Kavtaradze publicly attacked the Prime Minister and demanded his resignation. The Soviet and Tudeh press echoed Kavtaradze's words. The Soviets inspired their Tudeh comrades in Iran to strike and demonstrate until Sa'ed resigned. Sa'ed resigned on 10 November 1944.
He banned the
Tudeh Party
The Tudeh Party of Iran is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mirza Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in its early years and played an important role during Mohammad Mosaddegh's campaign to nationalize ...
during his premiership, and
Arthur Millspaugh was also re-appointed finance minister under his administration. It is said that he used public transportation (such as bus), even when he was a senator. He was fluent in
Russian
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*A citizen of Russia
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,
French, and
Turkish.
See also
*
Pahlavi dynasty
The Pahlavi dynasty () is an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian royal dynasty that was the Pahlavi Iran, last to rule Iran before the country's monarchy was abolished by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, Reza S ...
*
List of prime ministers of Iran
References
The following reference was used for the above writing: 'Alí Rizā Awsatí, ''Iran in the Past Three Centuries'' (''Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh''), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing, Tehran, Iran, 2003). (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2).
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Prime ministers of Iran
1881 births
1973 deaths
Burials at Behesht-e Zahra
University of Lausanne alumni
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20th-century Iranian politicians
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