Ataollah Khosravani
{{Short description|Iranian politician (1919–2005)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| office = Minister of Interior
| primeminister = Amir Abbas Hoveida
| predecessor = Abdolreza Ansari
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| term_start = 1968
| term_end = 1971
| office1 = Minister of Labor
| primeminister1 = {{ubl|Ali Amini|Asadollah Alam|Hassan Ali Mansur|Amir Abbas Hoveida}}
| predecessor1 = Ahmad Ali Bahrami
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| term_start1 = 9 May 1961
| term_end1 = 1968
| birth_date = 1919
| birth_place = Tehran, Qajar Iran
| death_date = September {{death year and age|2005|1919}}
| death_place = Paris, France
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| nationality = Iranian
| children = 1
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Ataollah Khosravani (1919 – September 2005) was an Iranian politician. He served as the secretary-general of Iran Novin Party and held several cabinet posts in the 1960s.
Early life and education
Khosravani was born in Tehran in 1919.{{cite web|title=عطاءالله خسروانی، متن کامل مصاحبه|author=Habib Lajevardi|language=fa
|url=https://iranhistory.net/khosravani-ata0/|publisher=Iran History|access-date=21 April 2022|date=27 May 2021|quote=Interview with Khosravani in Paris on 5 March 1983}} He had six half-brothers from his father's first marriage. He graduated from the Adab primary school and the Tharvat junior high school. Then he attended the Alborz College in Tehran. He received a bachelor's degree in social sciences in France.{{cite web|title=نگاهی به زندگی عطاءالله خسروانی به روایت اسناد ساواک
|publisher=History Documents|language=fa|access-date=21 April 2022|quote=Citing SAVAK documents|url=https://historydocuments.ir/?page=post&id=3438|archive-date=21 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421053341/https://historydocuments.ir/?page=post&id=3438}}
Career
Following his return to Iran Khosravani established a magazine entitled Afkar Iran with his brother. Then he was appointed an attaché to the Embassy of Iran in Paris. He served as the minister of labor in three successive cabinets starting from 9 May 1961.{{cite thesis|author=Michael J. Willcocks|title=Agent or Client: Who Instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the People in Iran, 1963|pages=68–69|degree=PhD|location=University of Manchester|year=2015|url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/agent-or-client-who-instigated-the-white-revolution-of-the-shah-and-the-people-in-iran-1963(f1bdd6c7-ed4c-42cc-bcaf-2a2f0cde5e60).html}} He first served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Ali Amini and succeeded Ahmad Ali Bahrami in the post. He also served in the cabinet of Prime Minister Asadollah Alam between February 1963 and March 1964.{{cite journal|title=Chronology September 16, 1962-March 15, 1963|journal=The Middle East Journal
|date=Winter–Spring 1963|volume=17|issue=1–2|page=113|jstor=4323557}}{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica
|title=Hoveyda, Amir-Abbas|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hoveyda-amir-abbas}} He retained his post in the next cabinet led by Hassan Ali Mansur from 7 March 1964{{cite journal|title=Chronology December 16, 1963 - March 15, 1964
|journal=The Middle East Journal|year=1964|volume=18|issue=2|page=218|jstor=4323704}} and also, in the cabinet of Amir Abbas Hoveida from January 1965.{{cite book|editor=S. H. Steinberg|title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1966-67|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=London|year=2016|isbn=978-0-230-27095-4|page=1136|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdfMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1136}}
Khosravani was appointed secretary-general of Iran Novin Party 1965 when Prime Minister Hassan Ali Mansur who had been serving as secretary general of the party was assassinated.{{cite journal|author=Marvin G. Weinbaum|title=Iran Finds a Party System: The Institutionalization of "Iran Novin"|journal=The Middle East Journal|date=Autumn 1973|volume=27|issue=4|page=446|jstor=4325140}} His tenure as minister of labor ended in 1968, and the same year he was named as the interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda. Khosravani's term as the secretary general of the Iran Novin Party ended in 1969. Manouchehr Kalali succeeded him in the post.{{cite journal|page=136|author=Rouhollah K. Ramazani|title=Iran's 'White Revolution': A Study in Political Development|date=April 1974|doi=10.1017/S0020743800027781|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|volume=5
|issue=2|s2cid=154527381}} Khosravani was removed from office as minister of interior in 1971.
A report by CIA dated February 1976 stated that in mid-1974 Khosravani was secretly assigned by the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to analyse the status of the Iran Novin Party to reorganize it.{{cite web|title=Elites and the Distribution of Power in Iran|publisher=Archive org|access-date=21 April 2022|format=Intelligence Report|date=February 1976
|url=https://archive.org/stream/DocumentsFromTheUSEspionageDen/Documents%20from%20the%20U.S.%20Espionage%20Den%20v07_djvu.txt}} At the end of his investigation Khosravani co-authored a report which partly led to the closure of the Party in 1975.
Personal life
While living in Paris during his studies, Khosravani married a French woman and had a son. Following the end of the Pahlavi rule in Iran in 1979, he settled in Paris where he died in September 2005.
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