Yadollah Sahabi

Dr. Yadollah Sahabi یدالله سحابی
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office 28 June 1980 – 9 January 1983
Constituency	Tehran
Personal details
Born	(1905-02-25)25 February 1905 Tehran, Iran
Died	Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Freedom Movement
Religion	Usuli Twelver Shia Islam

Yadollah Sahabi (25 February 1905 – 12 April 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician. A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry in the 1950s. He was the father of Ezzatollah Sahabi.

Sahabi studied at Université Lille Nord de France and majored in Geology. He got his PhD degree in 1936 and was immediately hired by Tehran University, faculty of science. Sahabi was one of the founders of Freedom Movement of Iran. He was an advocate of pluralism and democracy. He was a full professor at Tehran University and well credited writer.

Sahabi is considered by many Iranians as a national hero and an Iranian treasure. He died at the age of 97 in Jam Hospital in Tehran.

See also

• Intellectual movements in Iran

Political offices
Preceded by Javad Saeed	Chairman of Parliament of Iran 1980	Succeeded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani