| Hossein Makki | |
| Term Start1: | 27 April 1952 |
| Term End1: | 16 August 1953 |
| Term Start2: | 25 April 1950 |
| Term End2: | 19 February 1952 |
| Term Start3: | 12 June 1947 |
| Term End3: | 28 July 1949 |
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| Birth Name: | Seyyed Hossein Makki |
| Birth Date: | 1911 |
| Birth Place: | Meybod, Iran[1] |
| Nationality: | Iranian |
| Allegiance: | Iran |
| Rank: | Sergeant major |
Seyyed Hossein Makki (Persian: سید حسین مکی) was an Iranian politician, orator and historian.[2] He was a member of Parliament of Iran for three consecutive terms from 1947 to 1953.
The son of a bazaari merchant,[2] Makki was an employee of National Iranian Railroad Company,[1] having previously served as a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Iranian Air Force.[3] He began his career as a journalist in 1941[1] and was a founding member of the Iran Party, as one of the few who was not Western-educated.[2] He left the party as a leading member of Democrat Party of Iran in 1946 and entered the Parliament of Iran as a protégé of Ahmad Qavam in 1947.[2] He left his patron in 1949 to embrace a nationalist cause, befriending Mohammad Mossadegh and co-founding National Front.[1] He actively supported nationalization of the Iran oil industry movement and delivered a filibustering speech that took four days to prevent the oil agreement. He later broke away from Mossadegh and the National Front.[2]
He was briefly imprisoned in 1955 and spent the rest of his life writing about Iranian history,[1] most notably the best-selling eight-volume series Tāriḵ-e bist sāla-ye Irān (Twenty Year History of Iran).[2]