Birth Date: | 1869 |
Birth Place: | Tabriz, Sublime State of Persia |
Death Date: | 19 October |
Death Place: | Tehran, Imperial State of Iran |
Order: | 25th |
Office: | Prime Minister of Iran |
Term Start3: | 13 May 1945 |
Term End3: | 6 June 1945 |
Monarch3: | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Predecessor3: | Morteza-Qoli Bayat |
Successor3: | Mohsen Sadr |
Term Start2: | 30 October 1945 |
Term End2: | 28 January 1946 |
Monarch2: | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Predecessor2: | Mohsen Sadr |
Successor2: | Ahmad Qavam |
Term Start1: | 29 December 1947 |
Term End1: | 13 June 1948 |
Monarch1: | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Predecessor1: | Ahmad Qavam |
Successor1: | Abdolhossein Hazhir |
Order4: | President of Senate |
Term Start4: | 19 August 1951 |
Term End4: | 1 March 1957 |
Predecessor4: | None |
Successor4: | Hasan Taqizadeh |
Alma Mater: | Paris University |
Ebrahim Hakimi (Persian: ابراهیم حکیمی; 1869 – 19 October 1959) was an Iranian statesman who served as Prime Minister of Iran on three occasions.
Born in Tabriz in 1869, Ḥakimi was part of "an old and prominent family of court physicians", who traced their status as far back as the 17th century, "starting with the eponym of the family, Moḥammad-Dāvud Khan Ḥakim" who served at the courts of the Safavid kings (shahs) Safi (1629-1642) and Abbas II (1642-1666). This ancestor of Ebrahim was also the founder of the Hakim Mosque located in Isfahan.
After finishing elementary and high school in Tabriz, Hakimi attended Dar ol-Fonoon in Tehran and finished advanced studies in medicine in Paris.
Hakimi served as royal physician to Mozzafar-al-Din Shah. He then became a member of the Parliament, and served as cabinet minister 17 times, as prime minister for three terms, and as speaker of the Senate of Iran.
His second tenure as prime minister was short-lived (three months) as the Soviets, angry over his refusal to grant them an oil concession in Northern Iran, inspired Azerbaijani Communists to declare independence from Iran. Soviet troops occupying the Northern regions refused to allow Iranian troops to enter the region to put down the uprising. Hakimi submitted the issue to the UN Security Council and resigned from office in protest of Soviet actions in January 1946.[2]
Hakimi died in Tehran in 1959.[3]