Abbas Amir-Entezam

Abbas Amir-Entezam
عباس امیرانتظام
Amir-Entezam in 1979
Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Public Relations and Administration
In office
13 February 1979 – August 1979
Prime MinisterMehdi Bazargan
Succeeded bySadeq Tabatabaei
Ambassador to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland
In office
August 1979 – 19 December 1979
Prime MinisterMehdi Bazargan
Personal details
Born(1932-08-18)18 August 1932
Died12 July 2018(2018-07-12) (aged 85)
Tehran, Iran
PartyFreedom Movement of Iran
National Front of Iran
SpouseElaheh Amir-Entezam
Children3
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Abbas Amir-Entezam (Persian: عباس امیرانتظام, 18 August 1932 – 12 July 2018) was an Iranian politician who served as deputy prime minister in the Interim Cabinet of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. In 1981, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of spying for the U.S., a charge critics suggest was a cover for retaliation against his early opposition to theocratic government in Iran. He was "the longest-held political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran". According to Fariba Amini, as of 2006, he had "been in jail for 17 years." In July 2018, he died while serving his life sentence, serving more than 38 years as a political prisoner.