Education and Career
Entezam was born to "a middle-class family" in Tehran in 1933. He studied Electromechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran and graduated in 1955.
In 1956 Entezam left Iran for study at A.S.T.E.F. Institute (Paris). He then went to the U.S. and completed his postgraduate education at the University of California in Berkeley. After graduation, he remained in the US and worked as an entrepreneur.
Around 1970, Entezam mother was dying and he returned to Iran to be with her. Because of his earlier political activities, the Shah's Intelligence Service would not allow him to return to the U.S. He stayed in Iran, marrying, becoming a father and developing a business in partnership with his friend and mentor, Mehdi Bazargan. In 1979 the Shah was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution. Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, recently returned to Iran, appointed Bazargan as Prime Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. "Bazargan asks Entezam to be the Deputy Prime Minister and the official spokesperson for the new government."
According to Entezam's website:
Following the orders of the Prime Minister, Entezam sets out to rebuild the relationship between the US and the post-revolutionary Iran. He retains diplomatic contacts with the US embassy, advocating for normalization of the relationship between the two countries.
This was to later lead to imprisonment. In 1979 Amir-Entezam "succeeded in having the majority of the cabinet sign a letter opposing the Assembly of Experts", which was drawing up the new theocratic constitution where democratic bodies were subordinant to clerical bodies. His theocratic opponents attacked him and in August 1979 Bazargan "appointed Entezam to become Iran's ambassador to Sweden."
Read more about this topic: Abbas Amir-Entezam
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