Ali Zohari

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Ali Zohari
Member of Parliament
In office
27 April 1952 – 16 August 1953
ConstituencyTehran
Personal details
Political partyToilers Party
Other political
affiliations
National Front (1951–1952)

Ali Zohari (Persian: علی زهری) was an Iranian politician.

A protégé of Mozzafar Baghai,[1] he was elected to the parliament in 1952 election as a senior Toilers Party of the Iranian Nation member supported by the National Front.[2] He soon broke away from the National Front along with his fellow party members.[3] On 6 July 1953, he moved to initiate the motion of censure for government of Mossadegh.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Rahnema, Ali. Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks. Cambridge University Press. pp. 202, 286. ISBN 1107076064.
  2. ^ Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan. Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. pp. 209–215. ISBN 9781908433022.
  3. ^ Zabih, Sepehr (1958), Mossadegh's Era: A Study in Domestic Political Forces in Iran, University of California, Berkeley, p. 98