Fereydun Sahabi (; born 1937 in

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) is an Iranian academic, writer, translator, and social activist. He was the first president of the

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and the second in the administration of

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after the

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Early life

He was the third son of

Yadollah Sahabi Yadollah Sahabi (Persian: یدالله سحابی) (25 February 1905 – 12 April 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner ...

and the brother of

Ezzatollah Sahabi Ezzatollah Sahabi (, 9 May 1930 – 31 May 2011) was an Iranian politician and journalist. He was a parliament member from 1980 to 1984. Early life Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential ...

. Fereydun Sahabi was born in Iran in 1937. He did an MPhil in geology and exploration of petroleum from the

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Career

After returning to

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, he worked as a professor at the

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Political activities

Sahabi was a member of the National Front at the University of Tehran. He was active in the European Student Confederation. He was elected as a member of the

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in 1979. After the

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, he was elected as the Undersecretary of the

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and the first president of the

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Books

* Geology of petroleum,

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, 2012 * Sedimentary petrology,

, 2008

References

Sources

* Etemad newspaper, Interview with Fereydon Sahabi, 1556, page 7, 1986, Iran.
Magazine of mine engineering
* Aligholi, Abbas; Kiani, Ehsan; Samadieh magazine, p. 315,316, 2016. * Neyshaburi, N., "The last collapse of Persians", P. 673, 2013, USA. * Patrikarakos, David, ''Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'', I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012

External links

Patrikarakos, David, ''Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State'', I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012

Melman, Yossi; Javedanfar, Meir, ''The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran'', Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2008
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahabi, Fereydun Living people 1937 births Iranian geologists Presidents of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Alumni of the University of London Academic staff of the University of Tehran Freedom Movement of Iran politicians National Front (Iran) student activists Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights 20th-century Iranian scientists