Fereydoun Keshavarz | |
Office1: | Minister of Culture |
Term Start1: | 1 August 1946 |
Term End1: | 16 October 1946 |
Primeminister1: | Ahmad Qavam |
Predecessor1: | Mohammad-Taqi Bahar |
Successor1: | Ali Shayegan |
Office2: | Member of Parliament of Iran |
Term Start2: | 7 March 1944 |
Term End2: | 12 March 1946 |
Constituency2: | Anzali Port |
Party: | Tudeh Party (1941–1958) |
Birth Date: | 31 August 1907 |
Birth Place: | Anzali Port, Iran |
Death Place: | Switzerland |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Spouse: | Khadijeh Keshavarz[1] |
Alma Mater: | University of Toulouse |
Fereydoun Keshavarz (Persian: فریدون کشاورز; 1907–2006) was an Iranian physician and communist politician.
The son of a merchant from Gilan who had taken part in the Persian Constitutional Revolution, Keshavarz studied in Dar ul-Funun before going to study medicine in France. He taught at University of Tehran after he returned to Iran.[2]
Keshavarz entered politics in 1941, and joined Tudeh Party of Iran three months after its creation.[2] A leading member of the party, he was elected to its first central committee and served as the party's parliamentary spokesperson.[3] In the summer of 1946 he was named a minister in Qavam's coalition cabinet.[4] He broke away from the party in 1958,[5] because he came to believe that "Tudeh's policy is a betrayal of the working class".[6]