عبدالله انتظام

عبدالله انتظام وزیر امور خارجه ایران در کابینه حسین علاء و زاهدی، رئیس هیات مدیره شرکت نفت و عضو شورای سلطنت پس از آخرین خروج شاه از ایران بود.

زندگی سیاسی [ویرایش]

عبدالله انتظام ابتدا مدتی سفیر ایران در آلمان غربی بود. بعدها در سال ۱۳۳۲ و در کابینه سپهبد زاهدی به مقام وزارت امور خارجه رسید.[۱] در سال ۱۳۳۶ پس از مرگ بیات به ریاست هیئت مدیره شرکت ملی نفت ایران منصوب شد و تا سال ۱۳۴۲ در این سمت باقی ماند. به علت مخالفت با سیاست شاه در اعمال خشونت در برابر جریانات مذهبی (قیام پانزده خرداد ماه ۱۳۴۲) از سمت خود برکنار و خانه نشین شد.[۲]

در اواخر حکومت محمدرضا پهلوی، مجددا به خدمت غیر رسمی فراخوانده شد و مدتی از مشاوران اصلی شاه بود و به همراه علی امینی، او را به ماندن در کشور توصیه می نمود.[۳] او در ۲۴ دیماه ۱۳۵۷ و با معرفی دولت شاپور بختیار توسط شاه، به عضویت شورای سلطنت درآمد.[۴]

عبدالله انتظام پس از انقلاب ایران (۱۳۵۷) هیچ وقت زندانی نشد، چون از چنان وجه ای خوبی برخودار بود که حتی آیات لله خمینی نیز به اسارت او رغبت نداد. بر عکس برادرش نصرالله که مدتی در زندان زیر شکنجه بود. در فروردین سال ۱۳۶۲ در تهران درگذشت.

شخصیت [ویرایش]

عبدالله انتظام یک ریاضیدان و یک کارشناس اپتیک بود. مدیری خردمند بود و در عین حال شخصی شوح طبع بود. ساده و صریح سخن می گفت.[۵] او مردی درویش مسلک بود و خانه اش را شبیه خانقاه کرده بود. او برادر بزرگ نصرالله انتظام بود.[۶]

منابع [ویرایش]

↑ منوچهر فرمانفرمائیان. «یک انقلاب درباری». در خون و نفت. تهران: ققنوس، ۱۳۷۷. ۴۱۵. شابک ‎۹۶۴-۳۱۱-۱۴۹-۰.
↑ بازیگران سیاسی عصر رضاشاهی و محمدرضا شاهی . ناصر نجمی . انتشارات انیشتین ۱۳۷۳ تهران
↑ محمود طلوعی. «زمینه انقلاب». در داستان انقلاب. تهران: نشر علم، ۱۳۷۰. ۳۵۲. شابک ‎۹۶۴-۴۰۵-۱۹۸-x.
↑ محمود طلوعی. «زمینه انقلاب». در داستان انقلاب. تهران: نشر علم، ۱۳۷۰. ۴۳۱. شابک ‎۹۶۴-۴۰۵-۱۹۸-x.
↑ منوچهر فرمانفرمائیان. «یک انقلاب درباری». در خون و نفت. تهران: ققنوس، ۱۳۷۷. ۴۱۵ و ۴۱۶. شابک ‎۹۶۴-۳۱۱-۱۴۹-۰.
↑ بازیگران سیاسی عصر رضاشاهی و محمدرضا شاهی . ناصر نجمی . انتشارات انیشتین ۱۳۷۳ تهران
این یک نوشتار خُرد پیرامون افراد است. با گسترش آن به ویکی‌پدیا کمک کنید.
رده‌های صفحه: وزیران امورخارجه ایرانخاندان حسینی
همچنین:
Abdullah Entezam Iranian Diplomat (alternatively: Seyed Abdollah Entezam), son of Seyed Mohamad also known as "Binesh Ali", leader of Safih Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran. His father was also a diplomat. Older brother of Nasrollah Entezam, also a career diplomat and Iranian minister of Health (spelt Nasrullah by Iranian biographer Abbas Milani). His son was Hume Horan, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
Born in Tehran 1895 (1274) according to Encyclopedia Iranica, but according to Martin Zonis he was born in 1907. [1]
Encyclopedia Iranica says of him: "ʿAbd-Allāh Enteẓām diplomat and politician (b. 1274 Š./1895 in Tehran, d. 2 Farvardīn 1362 Š./22 March 1983. He was the eldest son of Khorshidlaqa Ghaffari and Sayyed Moḥammad Entezam-al-Saltaneh. [2]
He was educated in Tehran at the German Technical School, Dar al-Funun and the School of Political Science. After this Abdullah joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1919 and served as secretary at the Iranian embassy in Washington, D.C.
While in the United States, he studied mechanical engineering, which had always interested him, and married an American woman Margaret Robinson Hume, from whom he was subsequently divorced. They had a son, Hume Horan, who later joined the U.S. State Department and became a leading Arabist. In May 1958, he married Farah Ansari, granddaughter of Aliqoli Ansari Mosawer-al-Mamalek, to whom he was vaguely related. Her grandfather had been minister of foreign affairs several times. [2]
[edit]Career: diplomacy and Sufism

Abbas Milani in his book on Eminent Persians says: "Both diplomacy and Sufism became inseparable parts of Abdullah’s character and career." [3]
Iran's ambassador to France 1927,
Presented Iran’s case against Britain to the League of Nations in 1933,
Iran's ambassador to West Germany,
Minister of Finance under Mohammad Reza Shah, then Foreign Minister 1953-56,
Negotiated the resumption of diplomatic relations with Britain and the oil contracts after Mossadegh.
Chairman of the board of directors and Managing Director of NIOC (National Iranian Oil Company) 1957-63.
Dismissed by the Shah after the uprisings of 1963, for suggesting that the pace of reforms should be slowed down.
Marvin Zonis wrote on this subject in The Political Elite of Iran. p63 Dealing with the counter elite. [1] According to Zonis, Hossein Ala the court minister, called together a council of elite statesmen to convey their mounting concern to the Shah, in relation to the extreme response of the military to demonstrations against the arrest of Khomeini in June 1963.
People were demonstrating peacefully but the Shah had ordered troops to shoot and kill. The council of elite statesmen were: Ala himself, Abdollah Entezam, General Morteza Yazdanpanah, & Sardar Fakher Hekmat. After the four officials carried their foreboding to His Majesty, it was reported that the Shah was infuriated. Ala was relieved of his duties as minister of court, Yazdanpanah was dropped from the inspectorate, Hekmat was forbidden to campaign for the parliament & Entezam was retired from the National Iranian Oil Company and sent 'home'.
Entezam then set up an ironmongery workshop from which he earned his living for the next 15 years.
In 1978 the Shah realising his mistake begged him to return and accept the post of Prime Minister but it was too late. Entezam was too old and a revolution was well under way. There was nothing Entezam could do to dissuade the striking oil workers, despite the warm welcome that he received at the now in-turmoil oil company. p944 Raz e Bozorg. [4] He advised the Shah to remain in the country and not flee to the West. Once again his advice was not heeded.
[edit]Patronage & Freemasonry

According to Abbas Milani's book 'The Persian Sphinx', he was the mentor of the Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida. Hoveida referred to him as arbab (the boss).
Milani said in the The Persian Sphinx (page 115):
"In the mid 1950s when the Shah began to demand absolute obedience from all those around him, and as a token of this submission expected everyone to kiss the royal hand at each audience, Entezam was one of very few people in government who refused to comply."
He was also a Freemason, and in 1960, apparently at his behest, Hoveida (spelt Hoveyda by Milani) joined the Foroughi Lodge, newly created in 1960 with Entezam as its grand master.
In Ismail Raeen's (also spelt Ra'in) book on Freemasonry in Iran, Faramooshkhaneh va Faramasonery dar Iran Vol3, p505, Hoveida is listed as a Freemason and Entezam as the grand master of the Independent Grand Lodge of Iran.[5]
In Religion and politics in modern Iran : a reader, Lloyd V J Ridgeon on p. 150 states that "several Masonic Iranian Lodges connected to the United Grand Lodges of Germany operated from the premises of the Safi Ali Shahi Brotherhood Society in Tehran and Entezam had been a founder member in Tehran since 1960 of one of these, the Mehr Lodge and also guided another, the Safa Lodge, which had been established in 1962 ". [6]
According to Mahmoud Tolooie [4] "although Entezam was a founder member of these Iranian lodges, he gave up on them after the death of Seyed Hassan Taghizadeh in 1970 and did not attend their meetings anymore".
[edit]Sufism

Upon the death of his father he became the leader of the Safih Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran.
A New Perspective on Mysticism and Sufism: Abdollah Entezam , Introduced and translated by Matthijs van der Bos. [6]
In 1977 Entezam wrote a series of articles entitled ‘A New ‎Perspective on Mysticism and Sufism – Nazari tazeh be erfan ‎va tassavof-. He used the pseudonym ‘I do not know’ (la adri) ‎and the articles reported the question and answer sessions of ‎a Sufi Master. The essays were republished after the ‎revolution by Vahid Publishers, under the pseudonym of ‎Abdullah Azadeh in 1984.‎ [7]
[edit]End of life

During the Iranian revolution, in 1978 the 86-year-old Entezam was offered the role of Prime minister by the Shah, but was said to have turned it down on health grounds.[8]
Some might have said he was imprisoned by the new Islamist regime and released before his death in spring 1983. [9] However in the Farsi Wikipedia page on him, it is stated that unlike his brother Nasrollah, he was not imprisoned or tortured and that even Ayatollah Khomeini did not want him to be arrested. [10]
His obituary appeared in the Times by Sir Denis Wright on 23 April 1983, in which he said: "Untainted by corruption, he was, in the words of a British ambassador who knew him well, a “man of charm, modesty, and considerable ability, . . . spoke excellent English, French, and German, . . . shunned high society and lacked ambition but had a great capacity for friendship and was respected by all who knew him. The Shah would never have lost his throne had he listened to and made full use of men such as Abdullah [11]
[edit]References

^ a b The Political Elite of Iran Princeton, Marvin Zonis, Princeton University Press, 1971
^ a b http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/entezam
^ (Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941 ..., Volume 2 By Abbas Milani page 130).
^ a b Mahmoud Toloie in Raz e Bozorg (the Big Secret) p.944
^ The Persian sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian ... By Abbas Milani
^ a b Religion and politics in modern Iran: a reader Google Books
^ http://www.noormags.com/view/fa/ArticlePage/182834
^ economist
^ ghaffaris.com
^ Farsi Wikipedia عبدالله_انتظام
^ http://www.ghaffaris.com/graphics/Abdullah%20Eulogy%20By%20Wright.pdf
google books The Persian sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian ... By Abbas Milani
http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/عبدالله_انتظام
http://www.iranian.com/main/2010/nov/tehran-1960 Contains an ITN film by Tim Brinton and interview with Entezam.
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/entezam http://www.economist.com/node/13851742
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pTVSPmyvtkAC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=Abdollah+Entezam&source=bl&ots=wZaYlTph8g&sig=fYQ_9Y5qzr8b_AHlE_G31lKanx0&hl=en&ei=w5dJTtLJLsXRhAe5leXpBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Abdollah%20Entezam&f=false http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/nt/db.cgi?db=ig;mh=12;do=search_results;sb=Notes;Cat=Delegations&nh=4
The Political Elite of Iran (Princeton University Press, 1971
[edit]External links

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