Abdolhossein Hazhir

{{Short description|Iranian politician (1902–1949)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Abdolhossein Hazhir

| image = Hazhir.jpg

| birth_date = 4 June 1902

| birth_place = Kashan, Qajar Iran

| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|11|5|1902|5|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Tehran, Pahlavi Iran

| order = 27nd

| office = Prime Minister of Iran

| term_start = 13 June 1948

| term_end = 9 November 1948

| monarch = Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

| predecessor = Ebrahim Hakimi

| successor = Mohammad Sa'ed

| party =

| alma_mater = University of Isfahan

}}

Abdolhossein Hazhir ({{langx|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.{{Cite book|author=Alí Rizā Awsatí|trans-title=Iran in the Past Three Centuries|title=Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh)|publisher=Paktāb Publishing|year=2003|isbn=964-93406-6-1|volume=1|location=Tehran|language=fa}} {{isbn|964-93406-5-3}} One of his posts was the minister of finance.{{cite journal

|author1=Ali Asghar Saeidi|author2=Mary Yoshinari|title=Governing by partnership: the role of Abdolhossein Nikpour and the Chambers of Commerce in Iran's national economy|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|year=2022|volume=59 |doi=10.1080/00263206.2022.2043851

|page=9|s2cid=255968390 }}

During Hazhir's premiership in 1948 his policies were harshly criticized by Ayatollah Kashani who was one of the clerics close to the Fada'iyan-e Islam's leader Navab Safavi.{{cite journal|author=Sohrab Behdad|title=Islamic Utopia in pre-revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|year=1997|volume=33|issue=1|page=48|doi=10.1080/00263209708701141}} He was also subject to the criticisms of media outlets. One of them was a satirical magazine entitled Tawfiq which was closed by the government due to its frequent cartoons mocking Prime Minister Hazhir.{{cite journal|author=Babak Rahimi

|title=Satirical cultures of media publics in Iran|doi=10.1177/1748048514568761|journal=International Communication Gazette|year=2015

|volume=77|issue=3|page=271|s2cid=144012670 }} In November 1949, while serving as minister of royal court, Hazhir was assassinated at the Sepahsalar Mosque, Tehran.{{cite book|author=Farhad Kazemi|editor=Said Amir Arjomand|title=From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam|year=1984|page=163|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-06849-4|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06847-0|chapter=The Fadaˈiyan-e Islam: Fanaticism, Politics and Terror|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-06847-0 }}{{cite thesis|author=Aaron Vahid Sealy|title="In their place": Marking and unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran|isbn=978-1-124-92027-6

|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/896366090|location=University of Michigan|degree=PhD|year=2011|id={{ProQuest|896366090}}|page=72}} The perpetrator was found to be Seyyed Hossein Emami Esfahani, a member of Fada'iyan-e Islam, an Islamist militant organization led by Navab Safavi.{{cite news|title=Plot revealed to assassinate Persian premier|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2830498

|access-date=11 November 2012|newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=7 June 1951}}