Abbas-Ali Khalatbari
Abbas-Ali Khalatbari (Teheran, 1912 - 1979) is an Iranian politician.
Doctor in right of the Sorbonne, it begins his career in 1942 at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He becomes ambassador with Warsaw in 1960. In 1962, he becomes general secretary of CENTO, the treaty of military cooperation and defense signed by the Iran, the Turkey, the Pakistan, the the United States and the Great Britain. After having exerted the functions of number 2 of the Iranian diplomacy, he becomes minister in 1970. He leaves his ministry in 1977 with the formation of the second government of Jafar Sharif-Emami. Being considered above any suspicion, thanks to an honest life and an exemplary career, he refuses to leave Iran for the period pre-revolutionist. After the Iranian Revolution, it is stopped and carried out, in 1979. Its execution raises a wave of protest in the capitals and the chancelleries throughout the world.