In 1978 the Shah realising his mistake begged him to return and accept the post of Prime Minister but it was too late. Ala was relieved of his duties as minister of court, Yazdanpanah was dropped from the inspectorate, Hekmat was forbidden to campaign for the parliament & Entezam was retired from the National Iranian Oil Company and sent 'home'.Įntezam then set up an ironmongery workshop from which he earned his living for the next 15 years. The council of elite statesmen were: Ala himself, Abdollah Entezam, General Morteza Yazdanpanah, & Sardar Fakher Hekmat.Īfter the four officials carried their foreboding to His Majesty, it was reported that the Shah was infuriated. People were demonstrating peacefully but the Shah had ordered troops to shoot and kill. Īccording to Zonis, Hossein Ala the court minister, called together a council of elite statesmen to convey their mounting concern to the Shah, in relation to the extreme response of the military to demonstrations against the arrest of Khomeini in June 1963. Marvin Zonis wrote on this subject in The Political Elite of Iran. Negotiated the resumption of diplomatic relations with Britain and the oil contracts after Mossadegh.Ĭhairman of the board of directors and Managing Director of NIOC (National Iranian Oil Company) 1957-63.ĭismissed by the Shah after the uprisings of 1963, for suggesting that the pace of reforms should be slowed down. Minister of Finance under Mohammad Reza Shah, then Foreign Minister 1953-56, Presented Iran’s case against Britain to the League of Nations in 1933, Ībbas Milani in his book on Eminent Persians says: "Both diplomacy and Sufism became inseparable parts of Abdollah’s character and career." Her grandfather had been minister of foreign affairs several times. In May 1958, he married Farah Ansari, granddaughter of Aliqoli Ansari Mosawer-al-Mamalek, to whom he was vaguely related. State Department and became a leading Arabist. They had a son, Hume Horan, who later joined the U.S. While in the United States, he studied mechanical engineering, which had always interested him, and married an American woman Margaret Robinson Hume, from whom he was subsequently divorced. He was educated in Tehran at the German Technical School, Dar al-Funun and the School of Political Science.Īfter this Abdollah joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1919 and served as the secretary at the Iranian embassy in Washington, D.C. He was the eldest son of Khorshidlaqa Ghaffari and Sayyed Moḥammad Entezam-al-Saltaneh. "ʿAbd-Allāh Enteẓām diplomat and politician (b. His son was Hume Horan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia.īorn in Tehran 1895 (1274) according to Encyclopædia Iranica, but according to Marvin Zonis he was born in 1907. Older brother of Nasrollah Entezam, also a career diplomat and Iranian minister of Health (spelt Nasrullah by Iranian biographer Abbas Milani). Abdollah Entezam was an Iranian Diplomat (alternatively: Seyed Abdollah Entezam), son of Seyed Mohamad also known as "Binesh Ali", leader of Safi Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran.