Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies (statesmen) WWW.IICHS.ORG Field Martial GholamReza Azhari
Fatemeh Moezzi
GholamReza Azhari was born in Two years later, he left for
Following the failure of many governments in handling of the revolution, Mohammad Reza Shah decided to appoint a military figure as the head of the cabinet to stop the course of the revolution. So field martial GholamReza Azhari was appointed and introduced his military cabinet. In his cabinet GholamAli Oveissi was appointed to the ministry of the labor and social affairs, lieutenant general AmirHossein Rabiei to the ministry of housing and urbanization, and lieutenant general Qarabaghi as the minister of interior. The arrest of the journalists and some statesmen including Nematollah Nassiri, Manucher Azmun, AbdolAzim Valian, Dariush Homayun, GholamReza Nikpey and AmirAbbass Hoveida happened at his time of premiership.
Azhari invited major Ansari, Iranian military attaché in
Azhari did not believe the revolution and announced in a senate session in 6th Dec. 1987 that the voices heard in
During his years of services, he received many orders including the first and second order of Homayun, orders of competence, honor, service, labor, sport, gratitude, pas and 19th August and an order from the SENTO.
There are about 200 records related to Azhari’s military career and his family documents in IICHS which would be helpful for the researchers and the historians to refer to.
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