Hossein Makki

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Hossein Makki
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Member of Parliament
In office
27 April 1952 16 August 1953
Military service
AllegianceIran
Branch/service Air Force
Rank Sergeant major

Seyyed Hossein Makki (Persian : سید حسین مکی) was an Iranian politician, orator and historian. [2] He was a member of Parliament of Iran for three consecutive terms from 1947 to 1953.

The son of a bazaari merchant, [2] Makki was an employee of National Iranian Railroad Company, [1] having previously served as a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force. [3] He began his career as a journalist in 1941 [1] and was a founding member of the Iran Party, as one of the few who was not Western-educated. [2] He left the party as a leading member of Democrat Party of Iran in 1946 and entered the Parliament of Iran as a protégé of Ahmad Qavam in 1947. [2] He left his patron in 1949 to embrace a nationalist cause, befriending Mohammad Mossadegh and co-founding National Front. [1] He actively supported nationalization of the Iran oil industry movement and delivered a filibustering speech that took four days to prevent the oil agreement. He later broke away from Mossadegh and the National Front. [2]

He was briefly imprisoned in 1955 and spent the rest of his life writing about Iranian history, [1] most notably the best-selling eight-volume series Tāriḵ-e bist sāla-ye Irān (Twenty Year History of Iran). [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Abrahamian, Ervand (2013). The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations. New York: New Press, The. pp. 49–50. ISBN   978-1-59558-826-5.
  3. Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). "Makki". Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN   0815630182.
Honorary titles
Preceded by First deputy of Tehran
1952
Succeeded by