Ahmad Salamatian

Ahmad Salamatian
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1980 – 1981
Succeeded byMohammad Gharazi
ConstituencyIsfahan
Majority180,584 (55.3%)
Personal details
Born1941
Isfahan, Iran
Political partyOffice for the Cooperation of the People with the President
Other political
affiliations		National Front
Alma materUniversity of Paris

Ahmad Salamatian (Persian: احمد سلامتیان; born 1941, Isfahan[1]) is a former Iranian politician. He "played a prominent part in the revolution against the Shah",[2] co-founding the Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights in 1977,[1] and was the campaign manager of Abolhassan Banisadr in the 1980 presidential election.[2] He was deputy minister of foreign affairs in 1979,[3] and was elected to the Iranian parliament in February 1980.[4] He had lived in exile in France prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution (gaining a Master of Advanced Studies in political science from the University of Paris in 1966), and returned there in September 1981 after Banisadr was deposed and assassination attempts were made against him.[1][4][5] He has written for Le Monde Diplomatique.[6]

Salamatian later said, in response to the release of the film Argo, that he had been one of a number of Iranian officials aware of the 6 US hostages hidden in the Canadian embassy, who had kept quiet for fear of the radical hostage-taking groups.[7] In 2010 he co-authored a book on Iran's 2009-10 "Green Revolution".

Electoral history

Year Election Votes % Rank Result
1980 Parliament 181,630 55.3 4th Won[8]

Books

  • (with Sara Daniel) Iran : la révolte verte – La fin de l'islam politique ?, Éditions Delavilla, 2010

References

  1. ^ a b c Dominique Lagarde and Delphine Saubaber, L'Express, 6 August 2009, Ahmad Salamatian: "Les Iraniens aspirent à un islam du possible"
  2. ^ a b The Christian Science Monitor, 9 December 1980, Iran's militant clergy and moderates move to end bitter rivalry
  3. ^ Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, Salamatian, Ahmad Archived 7 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b House October Surprise Task Force, Joint report, p. 166
  5. ^ Arte, 2 March 2012, Ahmad Salamatian: Iranische Parlamentswahl ist Inszenierung Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ monde-diplomatique.fr, « Ahmad Salamatian »
  7. ^ cbc.ca, 19 August 2013, Iran hostage 'Canadian Caper' 1979 rescue no secret to some
  8. ^ "آخرین نتایج قطعی آراء در شهرستان‌ها" [The latest definite results of elections in provinces] (PDF), Enghelabe Eslami (in Persian), no. 217, p. 11, 17 March 1980 [27 Esfand 1358], archived (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2020 – via iran-archive.com