Rahman Dadman ( fa, رحمان دادمان; 1956–2001) was an Iranian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. Trained as a civil engineer Dadman briefly served as the minister of roads and transportation between January and May 2001. He died in a plane crash on 17 May 2001.

Biography

Dadman was born in

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in 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

in 1983. He also obtained a master of science degree in the same field from the same institution in 1986. Dadman held a PhD again in civil engineering which he received from the

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in 1996. Before the 1979 revolution Dadman was part of the revolutionaries. Dadman worked at his alma mater, University of Tehran, as a faculty member. He was appointed minister of roads and transportation under President

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on 14 January 2001. On 17 May 2001 he died in an air accident with about 30 other passengers in the crash of an Iranian Yak-40 plane, 13 miles from the city of

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, in northern Iran. Dadman was married to Zohratalsadat Nazari who was one of the individuals involved in the capture of the US Embassy in Tehran in November 1979. They had four children. One of his children, Ali Dadman, died on 27 June 2016 under mysterious conditions.

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