Kazem Sami Explained

Kazem Sami
Birth Name:Kazem Sami Kermani
Birth Date:1935
Birth Place:Mashhad, Pahlavi Iran
Death Place:Tehran, Iran
Office:Minister of Health
Term Start:13 February 1979
Term End:29 October 1979
Primeminister:Mehdi Bazargan
Predecessor:Manouchehr Razmara
Successor:Mousa Zargar
Office2:Member of Parliament of Iran
Constituency2:Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority2:819,186 (50.1%)
Term Start2:28 May 1980
Term End2:28 May 1984
Children:2 daughters

Kazem Sami (Persian: کاظم سامی; 1935 – 23 November 1988) was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of The Liberation Movement of People of Iran (JAMA).

Political career

Kazem Sami was one of the leaders and organizers of the Iranian revolution. He served as the minister of health in the Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first minister of health after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.[1] He ran in the first Iranian presidential elections, but lost to Abolhassan Banisadr, coming sixth out of the seven presidential candidates. He served as a deputy in the first post-revolutionary Iranian Parliament. After distancing himself from the revolutionary government, Dr Sami remained one of the few active opposition leaders in Iran, openly criticizing the Islamic Republic government. He also wrote a famous open letter to Ayatollah Khomeini, criticizing him for the continuation of the Iran-Iraq war after Iran had recovered her occupied territories, notably the liberation of Khorramshahr.

Murder

Sami was murdered in his private medical clinic in 1988,[2] [3] under suspicious circumstances.[4] He is believed to be one of the first victims of the "chain murders",[5] a series of murders and disappearances of Iranian dissident intellectuals in the 1990s.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr. Kazem Sami, Iran's first health minister.... Orlando Sentinel. 19 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Extrajudicial killings supported by law and Islamic jurisprudence. Iran Human Rights Review. 19 October 2019.
  3. Web site: Profile: Becoming the president of Iran. The Commentator. 19 October 2019.
  4. Book: Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran. Kaveh Basmenji. 2013. Saqi. 9780863565151. London.
  5. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DC163EF93AA15752C1A96E948260 An Iranian Health Authority Is Reported Slain at a Clinic