Hossein Navab | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran | |
In office 26 July 1952 – October 1952 | |
Monarch | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Prime Minister | Mohammad Mosaddegh |
Preceded by | Bagher Kazemi |
Succeeded by | Hossein Fatemi |
Personal details | |
Born | Mirza Hossein Khan Navab 1897 |
Died | 1972 (aged 74–75) |
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]