Birth Name: | Mirza Hossein Khan Navab |
Birth Date: | 1897 |
Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran |
Term Start: | 26 July 1952 |
Term End: | October 1952 |
Primeminister: | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
Predecessor: | Bagher Kazemi |
Successor: | Hossein Fatemi |
Hossein Navab or Hossein Navvab (Persian: حسین نواب; 1897–1972) was an Iranian diplomat, who served as foreign minister briefly in 1952.
Navab was a career diplomat. In the 1930s he was second secretary at the Iranian Embassy in London.[1] He served as the consul general of Iran in New York in the 1940s.[2] He was also the ambassador of Iran to the Netherlands.[3] He served as the minister of foreign affairs in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh which was announced on 26 July 1952.[4] Navab resigned from office without citing any reason on 9 October 1952, and Hossein Fatemi succeeded him in the post.[5]