Fereydun Sahabi Explained

Fereydun Sahabi فریدون سحابی
Birth Place:	Iran
Occupation:	professor, writer, translator, political activist and the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
Nationality:	Iranian

Fereydun Sahabi (Persian: فریدون سحابی; born 1937 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian academic, writer, translator, and social activist. He was the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the second in the administration of President of Iran after the Iranian revolution.

Early life

He was the third son of Yadollah Sahabi and the brother of Ezzatollah Sahabi.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Fereydun Sahabi was born in Iran in 1937. He did an MPhil in geology and exploration of petroleum from the University of London.

Career

After returning to Iran, he worked as a professor at the University of Tehran.

Political activities

Sahabi was a member of the National Front at the University of Tehran. He was active in the European Student Confederation.^[5] He was elected as a member of the Freedom Movement of Iran in 1979. After the Iranian Revolution, he was elected as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and the first president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.^{[6] [7]}

Books

• Geology of petroleum, University of Tehran Press, 2012
• Sedimentary petrology, University of Tehran Press, 2008

See also

• Yadollah Sahabi
• Ezzatollah Sahabi
• Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
• Nuclear program of Iran
• Nasrollah Khadem

References

Sources

• Etemad newspaper, Interview with Fereydon Sahabi, 1556, page 7, 1986, Iran.
• Magazine of mine engineering
• Aligholi, Abbas; Kiani, Ehsan; Samadieh magazine, p. 315,316, 2016.
• Neyshaburi, N., "The last collapse of Persians", P. 673, 2013, USA.
• Patrikarakos, David, Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State, I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012

External links

• Patrikarakos, David, Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State, I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012
• Melman, Yossi; Javedanfar, Meir, The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran, Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2008

Notes and References

1. http://www.magiran.com/npview.asp?ID=1532012 Interview with Fereydun Sahabi, Etemad magazine, 1556, p. 7, 2007
2. http://ijme.iranjournals.ir/journal/editorial.board About Fereydun Sahabi, Magazine of mine engineering, 2017
3. Aligholi, Abbas; Kiani, Ehsan; Samadieh magazine, p. 315,316, 2016
4. Neyshaburi, N., "The last collapse of Persians", P. 673, 2013, USA
5. http://puyesh.net/fa/news/34344/%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%88-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87 About Fereydun Sahabi on Shargh newspaper website, 2015
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=uYIAfkjTlTAC&dq=%22Fereydun+Sahabi%22&pg=PA95 Patrikarakos, David, Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State, I.B. Tauris and Co LTD, 2012
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=q8-Me-041qAC&dq=%22Fereydun+Sahabi%22&pg=PA92 Melman, Yossi; Javedanfar, Meir, The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran, Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2008