Farideh Sharifi

He was born about 1906 in an aristocratic family. He is a son of Nosrat-tod-dowleh Firuz, the eldest son of Farman Farma, a devotee to the British interests in Iran. His mother was a daughter of Mirza Hedayat-tol-lah Vazir Dafter. His father was minister of foreign affairs in Vossouq-qod-dowleh's cabinet and one of the main agents in the conclusion of 1919 contract, for which he is said to have taken huge sums of bribe.

He was educated in Cambridge end returned to Iran 1927. He was only twenty one, when he entered the government service. At first, became the translator of the ministry of foreign affairs to be appointed the second secretary of Iranian embassy in Washington. But due to some disputes with the Iranian minister, he returned to Iran and practiced law. He acted as an attorney for the German Dr. Lindin Blot, the managing director of Bank Melli Iran.

He married Mahin Dowlatshahi, daughter of Mohammad Ali Dowlatshahi. His life could be divided into two periods: the peaceful period from his birth to 1936, and the second one from the same year that his father was put to death by Reza Shah and he thought of revenge all the time.

Following Sep. 1941, he entered into the political scene of the country. His main good was the fall of Pahlavi regime. It was Firuz who went to Palestine and brought back there Seyyed Zia's first manifesto. He was an ardent supporter of Seyyed Zia, but he broke with him and turned to Qavam. Qavam-os-saltaneh became prime minister in January 26 1946 and appointed Firuz as his political undersecretary and Director of propaganda.

In his early days of premiership, the south oil labourers went on a strike and Mozaffar Firuz went to make surveys in Abadan. Through intermediations of Abbas Mirza Eskandari, he made overtures to the Tudeh party, in order to link Qavam-os-saltaneh to the Tudehis.

He was sent by Qavam-os-saltaneh to negotiate with Sadchihov, the Soviet representative. In his return to Iran, Qavam-os-saltaneh had to revise his cabinet under the Shah's pressure and Mozaffar Firuz was appointed the minister for economics.

In 1946, Qavam-os-saltaneh founded Iran Democratic party, and Mozaffar Firuz became the party's undersecretary. In fact, Firuz was in charge of everything in the party. Movarrekh-od-dowleh Sepehr was opposed to him and criticized him in the cabinet's sessions. So Firuz intrigued to exile him to Kashan.

In August 1946, in Qavam's coalition cabinet, he undertook the charge of newly established ministry of labour. Later on, due to the Shah's opposition to Firuz, he went out of the cabinet and became Iranian ambassador to Moscow. One year later, he was removed. He went to France and in the middle east section at French press. Eventually he died in 1989 in Paris.