Hossein Fatemi

Hossein Fatemi
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
16 September 1952  19 August 1953
MonarchMohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime MinisterMohammad Mosaddegh
Preceded byHossein Navab
Succeeded byAbdolhossein Meftah
Member of the Parliament
In office
27 April 1952  16 September 1952
ConstituencyTehran
Personal details
Born(1917-02-10)10 February 1917
Nain, Guarded Domains of Iran
Died10 November 1954(1954-11-10) (aged 37)
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
Political partyNational Front
Spouse
Parivash Satvati
(m. 1951)
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Tehran

Hossein Fatemi (Persian: حسین فاطمی; also Romanized as Hoseyn Fātemi; 10 February 1917 – 10 November 1954) was an Iranian scholar. A close associate of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, he proposed nationalization of Iranian oil and gas assets. Initially a journalist, he served as minister of foreign affairs from 1951 to 1953. After the 1953 coup d'état toppled the government of Mosaddegh, Fatemi was arrested, tortured, and convicted by a military court of "treason against the Shah", and executed by a firing squad.