Nasser Yeganeh
{{Short description|Iranian politician (1921–1993)}}
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|office = Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iran
|primeminister = Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
|term_start = 1975
|term_end = 1979
|predecessor = Emadoddin Mirmotahhari
|successor = Mehdi Sajjadian
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|birth_date = June 4, 1921
|birth_place = Qazvin, Qajar Iran
|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|11|15|1921|6|4|mf=y}}
|death_place = Washington, D.C., United States
|party = New Iran Party (1964-1975)
Rastakhiz Party (1975-1979)
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|alma_mater = University of Tehran (LL.B.)
Sorbonne (Ph.D.)
|profession = Judge
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Nasser Yeganeh (4 June 1921 – 15 November 1993) was an Iranian jurist, politician and statesman. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the head of the Iranian judiciary, brought in during Amir-Abbas Hoveyda's tenure.
Early life and education
Yeganeh was born in 1921, to an aristocratic family in Qazvin. His father, Mirza Ghaffar Khan Yeganeh (more commonly known as Salar Mansour), was the Hakim (Governor) of Qazvin. Yeganeh attended primary and secondary school in Qazvin before going to the University of Tehran where he received a Bachelor of Laws. He then went to France to pursue a PhD in Public Law from the Sorbonne. Following his graduation, Yeganeh traveled to the United States where he studied the American judicial system.{{cite web| url=http://rasekhoon.net/Mashahir/show-120152.aspx|title=ناصر یگانه|language=fa}}
Career
Yeganeh served as deputy in 1963. He was the minister of state (1963–1971), senator (1971–1974) and chief justice of the Supreme Court (1975–1979).{{cite web|url=http://fis-iran.org/en/oralhistory/Yeganeh-Naser|title=Yeganeh, Naser {{!}} Foundation for Iranian Studies|website=fis-iran.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613054345/http://fis-iran.org/en/oralhistory/Yeganeh-Naser|archive-date=2010-06-13}} He also served as the deputy prime minister in the cabinet led by Hassan Ali Mansur in the period between March 1964 and January 1965.{{cite journal|title=Chronology December 16, 1963 - March 15, 1964|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4323704|journal=Middle East Journal|year=1964|volume=18
|issue=2|page=218|jstor=4323704}}
Death
Yeganeh fled to the United States following the Iranian revolution and on 15 November 1993 committed suicide on his boat in Washington, D.C.{{cite book|author=Abbas Milani|title=The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsCJK-c87oQC&pg=PA154|year=2000
|page=154|publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=9781850433286}}
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Category:Iranian politicians who died by suicide
Category:University of Tehran alumni
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Iran Novin Party politicians
Category:Rastakhiz Party politicians
Category:Chief justices of Iran
Category:Iranian expatriates in France
Category:Iranian expatriates in the United States
Category:People of Pahlavi Iran
Category:Suicides in Washington, D.C.
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