Hossein Makki
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.
Hossein Makki | |
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| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 27 April 1952 – 16 August 1953 | |
| Constituency | Tehran |
| In office 25 April 1950 – 19 February 1952 | |
| Constituency | Tehran |
| In office 12 June 1947 – 28 July 1949 | |
| Constituency | Arak |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Seyyed Hossein Makki 1911[1] Meybod, Iran[1] |
| Died | 8 December 1999 (aged 87–88)[1] Tehran, Iran |
| Resting place | Behesht-e Zahra |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Iran |
| Branch/service | Air Force |
| Rank | Sergeant major |
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]
References
- Rahnema, Ali (24 November 2014). "Makki, Hoseyn (1911–1999)". Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks. Cambridge University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-1107076068.
- 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.
- Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). "Makki". Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0815630182.