Ezzatollah Sahabi
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| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
| Majority | 1,070,929 (50.2%) |
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Minister without Portfolio for Plan and Budget |
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In office 29 September 1979 – 6 November 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Preceded by | Ali Akbar Moinfar |
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9 May 1930 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 31 May 2011 (aged 81) Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
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| Children | Haleh Sahabi |
| Parents | Yadollah Sahabi (father) |
| Religion | Islam |
Ezzatollah Sahabi (9 May 1930 – 31 May 2011) was an Iranian politician and journalist. He was a parliament member from 1980 to 1984.
Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.
He studied mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Tehran University.
He was appointed as a member of Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini on 12 February 1979. Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center. He was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980.
In later years Sahabi was managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow), which was banned by the Islamic government, and participated in the 2000 'Iran After the Elections' Conference held in Berlin, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment. He was well known as the leader of the Iran's Nationalist-Religious political alliance.
Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Sahabi was married to Zahra Ataei, whose maternal uncle was Mehdi Bazargan. They had a son and a daughter. In April 2011, he was hospitalized in Persian Hospital. On 1 May 2011, Sahabi went into a coma after a stroke. On 31 May 2011, he died at age 81 in Modarres Hospital and his funeral was held the next day.
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