15 Facts About Nasrollah Entezam

Nasrollah Entezam was a diplomat, politician, and minister, as well as Iranian Ambassador to the United States and France.

Nasrollah Entezam was the first Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1947 to 1950 and President of the UN General Assembly during its fifth session in 1950.

Nasrollah Entezam was born in Tehran, Iran on 16 February 1900 into a Qajari family.

Nasrollah Entezam then studied political science at the University of Tehran and law at the University of Paris.

In 1918, following World War I, Nasrollah Entezam joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before serving as the Secretary to the Iranian Legations in Paris, Warsaw, Bern, and London between 1926 and 1929.

Nasrollah Entezam represented the Iranian government at the World Economic Conference in London in 1933 and was Iran's charge d'affaires in Bern and deputy head of the Iranian delegation between 1934 and 1938.

Nasrollah Entezam left Bern in 1938 to return to Tehran, where he was the Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for four years.

Nasrollah Entezam continued in foreign affairs following the war by representing Iran at the San Francisco Conference in 1945, the gathering that established the United Nations, and at the first session of the General Assembly in 1946.

Nasrollah Entezam was given the title Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary by the United States in 1950 for serving as a diplomat at the Embassy in the USA.

Nasrollah Entezam was the first non-Christian diplomat at the General Assembly in New York and served as Iran ambassador to the United States until 1952, when he was removed and replaced by Allah-Yar Saleh under Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Nasrollah Entezam was instead installed at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Nasrollah Entezam then worked as the Ambassador to France from 1958 to 1962.

Nasrollah Entezam was later elected chairman of the Inaugural Congress of the Rastakhiz Party.

Nasrollah Entezam died shortly after on 19 December 1980, though sources cannot seem to agree where he passed beyond it being in Tehran: at his house, at his sister's house, in prison, or at the hospital.

Nasrollah Entezam's nephew was Hume Horan, the son of his brother Abdollah.