Mohammad-Hassan Shamshiri

Mohammad-Hassan Shamshiri
Born1897
Died4 October 1961(1961-10-04) (aged 63–64)
Resting placeIbn Babawayh Cemetery
NationalityIranian
OccupationRestaurateur
Political partyNational Front

Mohammad-Hassan Shamshiri (Persian: محمدحسن شمشیری), more known as Haj Hasan Shamshiri,[1] was an Iranian bazaari restaurateur, philanthropist and civic patriotic activist.[2]

Shamshiri was among leading members of the Chelow kabab guild[2] and a patron of the National Front and its affiliated parties.

He purchased a substantional amount of the bonds issued by Governments of Mohammad Mosaddegh to support his cause.[3] After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, he continued his financial contributions and grassroots supports to the nationalist 'National Resistance Movement (NRM)',[4] and was subsequently banished to an island in the Persian Gulf by the post-coup government.[3]

References

  1. ^ Homa Katouzian (1999). Musaddiq and the struggle for power in Iran. I.B.Tauris. p. 88. ISBN 9781860642906.
  2. ^ a b Gasiorowski, Mark J.; Byrne, Malcolm (2004). Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran. Syracuse University Press. p. 29. ISBN 0815630182.
  3. ^ a b Arang Keshavarzian (2007). Bazaar and State in Iran: The Politics of the Tehran Marketplace. Cambridge University Press. pp. 237. ISBN 9781139464321.
  4. ^ Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 39. ISBN 1850431981.


Stub icon

This Iranian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.