1. Hushang Ansary is an Iranian-American former diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist.
12 Facts About Hushang Ansary
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Hushang Ansary served for eighteen years in the Iranian government prior to the Iranian Revolution including as Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance and Iran's Ambassador to the United States from 1967 to 1969.
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Hushang Ansary has been chairman or director of companies both in Iran and in the United States.
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Hushang Ansary served as ambassador to the United States until July 1969.
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Ultimately, this appointment went to Jamshid Amouzegar, and Hushang Ansary became the leader of the Constructionist wing of the Rastakhiz party, which opposed Amouzegar's Progressive wing.
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Some of Hushang Ansary's supporters have seen Amouzegar's appointment as a poor decision in hindsight.
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In November 1977, Hushang Ansary became the director of the National Iranian Oil Company, but resigned one year later and moved to the United States, citing health problems.
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Hushang Ansary was the director of an unstable company called Fakhre Iran, which he made profitable and sold to the government.
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Hushang Ansary arrived in the US a very wealthy man and became a US citizen in 1986.
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The accounts had been frozen because Parman and its major shareholder Hushang Ansary did not want to confirm that the CBCS is entitled to the accounts.
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Hushang Ansary was involved in the creation of several medical and educational institutions, such as the University of St Martin and the James Baker Institute.
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In February 2014, Hushang Ansary supported the A Thousand Years of the Persian Book Exhibition at the Library of Congress.