1979: Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Iranian Prime Minister

ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 7, 2014 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1979, just days after a referendum overwhelmingly voted revolutionary Iran an Islamic Republic, its former Prime Minister was convicted by a drumhead tribunal in Qasr Prison. Minutes after the trial closed, he was shot to death in a prison courtyard.

The western-educated Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (or Hoveida) shimmied up the diplomatic ranks in the 1940s and 1950s, and became Prime Minister after Hassa Ali Mansur was assassinated in 1965.

Hoveyda held the office for twelve and a half years, longer than anyone in modern Iranian history. He had been noted as a progressive young statesman interested in reforming Iran. But his years in government notably failed to restrain Iran’s endemic corruption and state violence. That he was a debonair polyglot with a discerning taste in whisky cut more ice with his foreign admirers than his future judges.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Iran’s endemic corruption and state violence

Some things will never change, no matter who's in power.

[nwrep]

With his wife in the 1960s:

[thesligoduffyflynns]

thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Hoveidahe was unfairly executed by Imam Khalhali who himself was a stark raving lunatic- think of a man who strangles cats, which he did... It was paybackon orders by Ayatollah Khomeini & his band of fraudsters, incompetents, religious crazies- (think fundamentalism in any religious belief) and outright thieves