Ahmad Matin-Daftari
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ahmad Matin-Daftari
| image = Ahmad Matin-Daftari 1940.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|1|23|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tehran, Qajar Iran
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|06|26|1897|01|23|df=y}}{{fact|date=March 2025}}
| death_place = Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
| order = 20th
| office = Prime Minister of Iran
| term_start = 26 October 1939
| term_end = 25 June 1940
| monarch = Reza Shah
| predecessor = Mahmoud Jam
| successor = Ali Mansur
| office1 = Senator
| term_start1 = August 1951
| term_end1 = 25 June 1971
| office2 = Member of the Parliament of Iran
| constituency2 = Meshkin Shahr
| term_start2 = August 1949
| term_end2 = August 1951
| party =
| alma_mater =
| spouse =
| children = Leyly Matine-Daftary
}}
Ahmad Matin-Daftari, also known as Mo'in al-Dowleh ({{langx|fa|احمد متیندفتری}}; 23 January 1897{{Cite web |url=http://safirsolh.com/category/%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C/ |title=مشاهیر حقوقی بایگانی - مؤسسۀ حقوقی سفیر صلح |access-date=2018-04-21 |archive-date=2019-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322033315/http://safirsolh.com/category/%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82%DB%8C/ |url-status=dead }} – 26 June{{fact|date=March 2025}} 1971), was an Iranian politician. He served as the former Prime Minister of Pahlavi Iran from 1939 until 1940.{{Cite web|date=14 December 1951
|title=Iranian See Oil Sale To Soviet Russia|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/303047045/|url-access=subscription
|url-status=live|access-date=9 November 2021|publisher=The Miami News|page=23|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109233319/http://www.newspapers.com/image/303047045/|archive-date=9 November 2021}}{{Cite web|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954
|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951-54Iran/persons|url-status=live|access-date=10 November 2021|publisher=Office of the Historian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616083347/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1951-54Iran/persons |archive-date=16 June 2017}}
Biography
The son of Showkat ad-Dowleh and grand-son of Najm al-Saltaneh.
Ahmad Matin-Daftari was born on 23 January 1897 in Tehran to father Mirza Mahmud-Khan Ain ul-Mamalek. He studied in Tehran's German School and received his Ph.D. in France. He wrote his dissertation in 1929.{{Cite book|last=Cronin|first=Stephanie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McmyoiHloJUC|title=The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941|date=2012-11-12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-02694-2|pages=96|language=en}}
Matin-Daftari served as Senator in Iran's Majlis and became Prime Minister on 26 October 1939{{cite journal|author=Fariborz Mokhtari|title=Iran's 1953 Coup Revisited: Internal Dynamics versus External Intrigue|journal=Middle East Journal|date=Summer 2008|volume=62|issue=3|page=466
|doi=10.3751/62.3.15|url=https://doi.org/10.3751/62.3.15}} with the fall of Mahmoud Jam's administration. During his premiership, the first National census was implemented in Iran and Iran's first National Radio transmitter was inaugurated. Matin Daftari was removed from the office on 25 June 1940.
Matin-Daftari was thrown in prison after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran by the Allies in 1941 because of his German connections.{{Cite book|author=Ervand Abrahamian|title=Iran between two revolutions|year=1982|page=241}}
He was Mohammad Mosaddegh's nephew and son-in-law.{{cite book|author=Ervand Abrahamian
|title=The coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations|date=2013|publisher=New Press
|location=New York|isbn=978-1-59558-826-5|page=78}} through his marriage to Mansoureh Mossadegh.File:Hedaytollah_Matin-Daftari(cropped).pngThey had two sons and one daughter, painter Leyly Matine-Daftary;{{Cite web|title=Herchive: A Visual Archive Expanding Art History
|url=https://www.magazine.artconnect.com/editorial/herchive-a-visual-archive-expanding-art-history|access-date=2021-11-09|website=ArtConnect}} and {{III|Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari|qid=Q109507339}} whowas lawyer and leader of the National Democratic Front political party.{{Cite web|title=Matīn Daftarī, Hidāyat|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D1046305646|url-status=live|website=Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110003921/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D1046305646 |archive-date=2021-11-10 }}
Death
Matin-Daftari died in Tehran at the age of 74.
See also
Bibliography
- 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). {{ISBN|964-93406-6-1}} (Vol. 1), {{ISBN|964-93406-5-3}} (Vol. 2).
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