Mohammad Ali Varasteh

Mohammad Ali Varasteh (1896–1989) was an Iranian statesman who held several cabinet posts in the 1950s and also, served as the governor of Isfahan Province.

Biography

Varasted was born in 1896.[1] He served as the minister of health replacing Amir Alam in the post.[1] Varasted's successor as health minister was Jahanshah Saleh.[1] Varasteh was the minister of finance in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.[2] He became one of the members of the Committee of Expropriation which was founded by Mosaddegh in May 1951 to eliminate the control of Britain in Iran’s oil industry.[3] Varasted was also head of the Iranian delegation which had been formed to negotiate this process.[4] However, he resigned from the post and was replaced by Mohammad Nariman.[4]

Following the coup in 1953 which ended the government of Prime Minister Mosaddegh Varasted was appointed the governor of Isfahan Province.[5] Just before the Iranian revolution in 1979 Varasted was serving as the chair of the regency council.[5] He did not leave Iran following this incident and died in Tehran in 1989.[5]

References
  1. Mohammad Hossein Azizi (2007). "The Historical Backgrounds of the Ministry of Health Foundation in Iran". Archives of Iranian Medicine. 10 (1): 123. PMID 17198470.
  2. Katayoun Shafiee (2018). "Technopolitics of a concessionary contract: How international law was transformed by its encounter with Anglo-Iranian oil" (PDF). International Journal of Middle East Studies. 50 (4): 631. doi:10.1017/S0020743818000909. S2CID 158553099.
  3. Fariborz Mokhtari (2016). "Review of Iran's 1953 Coup: Revisiting Mosaddeq". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 7 (2): 119. doi:10.5325/bustan.7.2.0113.
  4. Alan W. Ford (1954). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute of 1951-1952. University of California Press. p. 122.
  5. Manshour Varasteh (2013). Understanding Iran's National Security Doctrine. Troubador Publishing Limited. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-78088-557-5.
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