Ahmad Matin-Daftari

Ahmad Matin-Daftari
20th Prime Minister of Iran
In office 26 October 1939 – 25 June 1940
Monarch	Reza Shah
Preceded by	Mahmoud Jam
Succeeded by	Ali Mansur
Senator
In office August 1951 – 25 June 1971
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office August 1949 – August 1951
Constituency	Meshkin Shahr
Personal details
Born	(1897-01-23)23 January 1897 Tehran, Qajar Iran
Died	26 June 1971(1971-06-26) (aged 74) Tehran, Pahlavi Iran
Children	Leyly Matine-Daftary

Ahmad Matin-Daftari, also known as Mo'in al-Dowleh, (Persian: احمد متین دفتری; 23 January 1897^[1] – 26 June 1971) was an Iranian politician. He served as the former Prime Minister of Pahlavi Iran from 1939 until 1940.^[2][3]

Biography

Ahmad Matin-Daftari was born on 23 January 1897 in Tehran to father Mirza Mahmud-Khan Ain ul-Mamalek. He studied in Tehran's German School and received his Ph.D. in France. He wrote his dissertation in 1929.^[4]

Matin-Daftari served as Senator in Iran's Majlis and became Prime Minister on 26 October 1939^[5] with the fall of Mahmoud Jam's administration. During his premiership, the first National census was implemented in Iran and Iran's first National Radio transmitter was inaugurated. Matin Daftari was removed from the office on 25 June 1940.^[5]

Matin-Daftari was thrown in prison after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran by the Allies in 1941 because of his German connections.^[6]

He was Mohammad Mosaddegh's nephew and son-in-law.^[7] His daughter was painter Leyly Matine-Daftary;^[8] his son was lawyer and leader of the National Democratic Front political party, Hedayatollah Matin-Daftari [Wikidata].^[9]

Matin-Daftari died in Tehran at the age of 74.

See also

• Pahlavi dynasty
• Abdolhossein Teymourtash

Bibliography

• 'Alí Rizā Awsatí (عليرضا اوسطى), Iran in the Past Three Centuries (Irān dar Se Qarn-e Goz̲ashteh - ايران در سه قرن گذشته), Volumes 1 and 2 (Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب, Tehran, Iran, 2003). ISBN 964-93406-6-1 (Vol. 1), ISBN 964-93406-5-3 (Vol. 2).

References

1. "مشاهیر حقوقی بایگانی - موسسه حقوقی سفیر صلح". Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
2. "Iranian See Oil Sale To Soviet Russia". The Miami News. 14 December 1951. p. 23. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
3. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954". Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
4. Cronin, Stephanie (2012-11-12). The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941. Routledge. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-136-02694-2.
5. Fariborz Mokhtari (Summer 2008). "Iran's 1953 Coup Revisited: Internal Dynamics versus External Intrigue". Middle East Journal. 62 (3): 466. doi:10.3751/62.3.15.
6. Ervand Abrahamian (1982). Iran between two revolutions. p. 241.
7. Ervand Abrahamian (2013). The coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations. New York: New Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-59558-826-5.
8. "Herchive: A Visual Archive Expanding Art History". ArtConnect. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
9. "Matīn Daftarī, Hidāyat". Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB). Archived from the original on 2021-11-10.

External links

• Media related to Ahmad Matin-Daftari at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by Mahmoud Jam	Prime Minister of Iran 1939–1940	Succeeded by Ali Mansur