Abdullah Moazzami | |
Term Start: | 1 July 1953 |
Term End: | 16 August 1953 |
Term Start1: | 27 April 1952 |
Term End1: | 16 August 1953 |
Term Start2: | 9 February 1950 |
Term End2: | 19 February 1952 |
Term Start3: | 12 June 1947 |
Term End3: | 28 July 1949 |
Term Start4: | 7 March 1944 |
Term End4: | 12 March 1946 |
Party: | |
Birth Date: | 1907[1] or 1909[2] |
Death Date: | 1971 |
Occupation: | Law professor |
Alma Mater: | University of Paris |
Abdullah Moazami (Persian: عبدالله معظمی) was an Iranian lawyer and politician. He taught at University of Tehran and was a member of Parliament of Iran for four consecutive terms from 1944 to 1953.[2] Moazami came from an upper-class[1] and titled landlord family[2] and has been described as a "man of moderate demeanor and connected with several factions by both family and politics".[3]
In 1952, he lost to the royalist cleric Hassan Emami for the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran.[3] On 1 July 1953, he was elected as the speaker by a vote of 41 to 31, with one abstention.
After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, he was briefly imprisoned.[2]
His brother, Seyfollah Moazami, served as minister of post & telegraph under Government of Mohammad Mosaddegh.[2]