Amouzegar served as deputy minister in Iran's ministry of health under
Jahanshah Saleh in 1955. In 1959, Amouzegar replaced
Hassan Akhavi as agriculture minister when Akhavi was removed from the
cabinet of Prime Minister
Manouchehr Eghbal. He was appointed minister of labor and then minister of health in the
cabinet led by Prime Minister
Hasan-ali Mansour. He subsequently became minister of finance in the cabinet of
Amir Abbas Hoveida after the assassination of Prime Minister Mansour in 1964, remaining in that post for nine years. From 1965 to 1974, he headed several ordinary meetings of the
OPEC. Amouzegar did not return to Iran after leaving in 1978. He lived in
Chevy Chase, Maryland, and later in
Rockville, Maryland, and was a consultant to the governments of
Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait. ==Death==