Abdullah Entezam
Abdullah Entezam - Saltaneh (* 1895 in Tehran, † March 1983) was an Iranian ambassador and foreign minister.
Life
Abdullah Entezam - Saltaneh was like his younger brother Nasrollah Entezam a son of Entezam as- Saltaneh, an Iranian diplomat. His mother was Khorshid Khanum Ghaffari, a granddaughter of Mirza Ali Khan Amin al Dowleh.
Abdullah first visited the German Technical School in Tehran, the Dar al Fonoun and studied at the School of Political Sciences in Tehran later. He then joined the Foreign Service of Iran. His first foreign assignment took him to the Iranian Embassy in Washington DC He married in the U.S., a young woman from a respected American family. But the marriage did not last long, and Entezam was divorced before he was called back to Iran. His other stations were the Iranian embassies in Bern, Prague, Paris and Stuttgart and later in Bonn. In 1946 he was busy with Amir Abbas Hoveyda and Hassan Ali Mansour in the Iranian embassy in Stuttgart. On February 17, 1950, he appealed to the government of Konrad Adenauer to his credentials.
1951, back in Iran Abdullah Entezam was foreign minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Hossein Ala, under whose government the Iranian oil industry was nationalized for a few months. The term of office Alas should end two months later, but already, since his government of Mohammad Mossadegh activity was sabotaged, with the support of the members of the National Front. Alam's successor was Mossadegh. After the overthrow of Mossadegh in August 1953 Abdullah Entenzam was again foreign minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi.
In 1956 he left the Foreign Office and was director of the National Iranian Oil Company. His most important personnel decision was Amir Abbas Hoveyda in 1958, the later prime minister of Iran to have set with the NIOC.
After the riots in Iran in June 1963 Entezam auditioned along with four other senior Iranian politicians in Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and criticized the actions of the security forces. They demanded the dismissal of Prime Minister Asadollah Alam, responsiveness to the demands of the demonstrators. Alam remained prime minister. For Entezam was dismissed as director of the NIOC.
Only in 1978 it came back to a conversation between Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Abdullah Entezam. The Shah offered Entezam to the Office of the Prime Minister. But the refused and suggested in its place Gholam Hossein Sadiqi. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi called Entezam in the Privy Council, in its place is the business leader active in the absence of the monarch.