Sadeq Tabatabaei
| Sadeq Tabatabaei | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Public Relations | |
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In office August 1979 – 6 November 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Preceded by | Abbas Amir-Entezam |
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| Born |
25 March 1943 Qom, Iran |
| Died | 21 February 2015 (aged 71) Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Freedom Movement (1969–1980) |
| Spouse(s) | Fatemeh Sadrameli (1965–2015, his death) |
| Relations |
Musa al-Sadr (uncle) Ahmad Khomeini (brother-in-law) Hassan Khomeini (nephew) |
| Children | Ghazaleh (b. 1973) Adnan (b. 1979) |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum |
| Profession | Politician, writer and TV host |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| Website | Official website |
Sadeq Tabatabaei (Persian: صادق طباطبایی; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980. He was also Deputy Minister of the Interior and oversaw the referendum on establishing an Islamic Republic in March 1979. He was Iran's Ambassador to West Germany from 1982 until 1986.
Tabatabaei was born on 12 December 1943 in the city of Qom. He was the son of Ayatollah Mohammad-Bagher Tabatabaei and nephew of Musa al-Sadr. His sister, Fatemeh was married to Ahmad Khomeini, son of Ruhollah Khomeini, thereby making him the uncle of Hassan Khomeini. After completing his elementary education, he moved to Germany along with his uncle, Musa al-Sadr and began studying in chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum. After graduating, he became a professor at the university and also a member of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
In 1961, Sadegh Tabatabai went to Aachen to study biochemistry and later received his doctorate from the University of Bochum. While in Aachen, he organized a student group that campaigned against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1967, he handled Ulrike Meinhof material about Iran, which was used in a famous column in Konkret magazine opposing the Shah's visit to West Germany that year. Tabatabai gave a speech at the grave of Benno Ohnesorg, an unarmed university student who was shot during a demonstration against the Shah's visit to the Deutsche Oper in Berlin by Karl-Heinz Kurras, a police officer later discovered to be an agent of the East German secret police, the Stasi.
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