Rahman Dadman

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Rahman Dadman

| native_name = {{langx|fa|رحمان دادمان}}

| office1 = Minister of Roads and Transportation

| term_start1 = 14 January 2001

| term_end1 = 17 May 2001

| president1 = Mohammad Khatami

| predecessor1 = Mahmoud Hojjati

| successor1 = Ahmad Khorram

| birth_date = {{birth date text|1956}}

| birth_place = Ardabil, Iran

| death_date = 17 May {{death year and age|2001|1956}}

| death_place = Near Sari, Iran

| death_cause = Plane crash

| education = University of Tehran, University of Manchester

| spouse = Zohratalsadat Nazari

| children = 4

}}

Rahman Dadman ({{langx|fa|رحمان دادمان}}; 1956–2001) was an Iranian politician. 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 Ardabil in 1956. He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Tehran 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 University of Manchester in 1996. Before the 1979 revolution Dadman was part of the revolutionaries.{{cite book|author=Hesam Forozan|title=The Military in Post-Revolutionary Iran: The Evolution and Roles of the Revolutionary Guards|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2015|isbn=978-1-317-43074-2|location=Abingdon, UK|page=95|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5oa9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA95}}

Dadman worked at his alma mater, University of Tehran, as a faculty member. He was appointed Minister of Roads and Transportation under President Mohammad Khatami 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 Sari, Iran, in northern Iran.{{cite news|title=Iranian minister's crashed plane found|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1337920.stm|access-date=6 January 2022|work=BBC|date=18 May 2001}}{{cite news|title=Iran minister feared dead in crash

|access-date=6 January 2022|work=CNN|date=17 May 2001|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/05/17/iran.crash.02/

|location=Tehran}}

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.{{cite book|author1=Mehrzad Boroujerdi|author2=Kourosh Rahimkhani|title=Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXN0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA297}} They had four children. One of his children, Ali Dadman, died on 27 June 2016 under mysterious conditions.{{cite news|title=Was "Economic Guerrilla" Ali Dadman Murdered?|url=https://www.iranwire.com/en/features/1454|access-date=6 January 2022|work=IranWire

|date=3 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106170402/https://www.iranwire.com/en/features/1454 |archive-date=6 January 2022}}