Amir Abbas Hoveida

Amir Abbas Hoveida امیرعباسهویدا Iran IEN of confession bahaïe born the February 18th 1919 is a politician with Teheran and dead the April 7th 1979 in the same city. Its name also transcribes Hoveyda . Its character was associated with the orchis which it carried to his buttonhole and the pipe that it smoked openly.

He filled the task of Iranian Prime Minister of the January 27th 1965 with the August 6th 1977. After thirteen years uninterrupted with the head of the government, the Shah makes the decision to thank Hoveyda and to replace it by Djamchid Amouzegar, a technocrat trained in the United States and charged with rectifying the Iranian economic situation become alarming.

The resignation of Amir Abbas Hoveyda is not completely a disgrace, since it will be named Minister for the Court. But the tensions become palpable with the turning of the Seventies convinced the sovereign whom it was necessary to offer to the Iranians a new team. The goal being to erase the accumuluées errors, to urgently slow down the rate/rhythm of the economy and excesses induced (pharaonic projects, drastic reduction of the cases of corruption, shortages, etc).

September 9th, 1978, following the tragic events of the Place Jaleh (Black Friday) which made 95 dead and at least 250 wounded, Amir Abbas Hoveyda resigns. The violent riots with repetition which take place in Teheran since November 5th, 1978, force the Shah has to pose " an act fort". According to the council of the principal persons in charge of Savak, the monarch orders the arrest of Hoveyda, which will be initially put under house arrest, as of on November 8th, before being imprisoned in the prison of Qasr (northern suburbs of Teheran).

The departure of the Shah meaning for the agents of Savak that the escape is inescapable, the geôliers leave their station and Hoveyda is found thus abandoned in its cell. Persuaded that it does not have anything to be reproached and that the revolutionists will not do anything to him, the former Prime Minister for the Shah is not tried by the escape.

April 1st, 1979, the Islamic Republic was born. The journalist Christine Ockrent obtains the authorization to interview Amir Abbas Hoveyda in his cell, on behalf of chain FR3. Shaken by the direct questions evoking the cases of torture, the methods of the political police of the Shah, it does not seem to want to defend oneself. Disillusioned and imperturbable, he regards himself as being the scapegoat. In spite of the letters of protest and emanating support of the Occident, he is finally judged behind closed doors. At the conclusion of an expeditious lawsuit, it is cut down of a ball in the head, as soon as the sentence pronounced by the Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali.

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