Kazem Sami (Persian: کاظم سامی; 1935 – 23 November 1988) was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of Mehdi Bazargan and leader of The Liberation Movement of People of Iran (JAMA).
Kazem Sami | |
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| Minister of Health | |
| In office 13 February 1979 – 29 October 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Preceded by | Manouchehr Razmara |
| Succeeded by | Mousa Zargar |
| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 | |
| Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
| Majority | 819,186 (50.1%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kazem Sami Kermani 1935 Mashhad, Pahlavi Iran |
| Died | 23 November 1988 (aged 52–53) Tehran, Iran |
| Political party | JAMA |
| Children | 2 |
Political career
editKazem Sami was one of the leaders and organizers of the Iranian revolution. He served as the minister of health in the Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first minister of health after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.[1] He ran in the first Iranian presidential elections, but lost to Abolhassan Banisadr, coming sixth out of the seven presidential candidates. He served as a deputy in the first post-revolutionary Iranian Parliament. After distancing himself from the revolutionary government, Dr Sami remained one of the few active opposition leaders in Iran, openly criticizing the Islamic Republic government. He also wrote a famous open letter to Ayatollah Khomeini, criticizing him for the continuation of the Iran-Iraq war after Iran had recovered her occupied territories, notably the liberation of Khorramshahr.
Murder
editSami was murdered in his private medical clinic in 1988,[2][3] under suspicious circumstances.[4] He is believed to be one of the first victims of the "chain murders",[5] a series of murders and disappearances of Iranian dissident intellectuals in the 1990s.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Dr. Kazem Sami, Iran's first health minister..." Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Extrajudicial killings supported by law and Islamic jurisprudence". Iran Human Rights Review. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Profile: Becoming the president of Iran". The Commentator. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ^ Kaveh Basmenji (2013). Tehran Blues: Youth Culture in Iran. London: Saqi. ISBN 9780863565151.
- ^ An Iranian Health Authority Is Reported Slain at a Clinic