Gholam-Ali Farivar

Gholam-Ali Farivar
Gholam-Ali Farivar
Ambassador of Iran to Switzerland
	In office; 1979–1980
Prime Minister	Mehdi Bazargan
Minister of Industries
	In office; 1961–1962
Prime Minister	Ali Amini
Member of the Parliament
	In office; 7 March 1944 – 12 March 1946
Constituency	Tehran
Personal details
Born	Gholam-Ali Farivar Tehrani; 1905/1906; Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Political party	Iran Party (1944–1947); Comrades Party (1942–1944);
Alma mater	University of Paris
Occupation	Engineer

Gholam-Ali Farivar (Persian: غلامعلی فریور) was an Iranian engineer and politician.

Early life and education[edit]

Farivar was born in 1905^[2] or 1906 in a middle-class family in Enzeli, Gilan Province.^[3] He studied engineering at University of Paris.^[3]

He was one of the early leaders of Iran Party,^[3] having previously been a member of the Comrades Party's central committee.^[4] In the 1944 Iranian legislative election, he was elected to the parliament along with five other fellow members of Iran Party.^[3] He was among figures who played a role in establishment of the United Front of Progressive Parties, a coalition including the communist Tudeh Party of Iran.^[5]

He served as industry minister in the cabinet of Ali Amini.^[6] For some time, he was also chairman of board of directors of Mortgage Bank of Iran, as well as an advisor to the Ministry of Commerce.^[2]

After the Iranian Revolution, Farivar was appointed as the ambassador to Switzerland.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Middle East Economic Digest, vol. 23, 1979, p. 23
^ ^a ^b Iran Who's who, vol. 3, Echo of Iran, 1976, p. 161
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 190–191. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
^ Elwell-Sutton, L. P. (January 1949). "Political Parties in Iran 1941-1948". Middle East Journal. 3 (1). Middle East Institute: 45–62. JSTOR 4322041.
^ Haddad Adel, Gholamali; Elmi, Mohammad Jafar; Taromi-Rad, Hassan (31 August 2012). "Iran Party". Political Parties: Selected Entries from Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam. EWI Press. p. 146. ISBN 9781908433022.
^ "Presse- und Informationsamt", Bulletin des Presse- und Informationsamtes der Bundesregierung (in German), Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1962, p. 321

"Interview with Farivar, Gholam-Ali: Tape 01". Iranian Oral History Project (Interview). Interviewed by Zia Sedghi. Middle Eastern Division, Widener Library, Harvard University. 12 June 1984. Archived from the original on 18 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2020.{{cite interview}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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