Nader Batmanghelidj

Batmanghelidj was born in 1904.{{cite news|title=سرگذشت عجیب ۵ستاره اینترنشنال|access-date=1 January 2022|work=Hamshahri Online|language=fa|url=https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/591043/%D8%B3%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%A8-%DB%B5%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84|date=3 April 2021|archive-date=1 January 2022 He was a graduate of the Iranian Military Academy and joined the Iranian Army in the 1920s.{{cite journal|author=Janet McMahon ==Career==

During the invasion of Iran by the British in World War II Batmanghelidj was serving in the army as a colonel and was captured and imprisoned by the British in 1941. On August 15, 1953, Batmanghelidj was arrested and imprisoned when the coup failed. When Mossadegh was overthrown in August 1953 Batmanghelidj returned to the army. He was the chief of staff of the armed forces between 1953 and 1955. Although not assigned by the government, Batmanghelidj and Teymur Bakhtiar, military-governor of Tehran, participated in the destruction of the National Baha'i Center in Tehran on 22 May 1955.{{cite thesis|author=Aaron Vahid Sealy|title="In their place": Marking and unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran|id=|location=University of Michigan Next Batmanghelidj served as the ambassador of Iran to Iraq in the period 1957–1958. He was appointed Minister of Interior to the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal in 1958 and was in office until 1959. When he was in office he successfully developed a rural development plan.{{cite thesis|author=Michael J. Willcocks ==Personal life and death==

Batmanghelidj was the owner of Tehran International Hotel which he established in the 1940s. He was arrested following the 1979 revolution in Iran. He was imprisoned for three years and went to the United States when he was released from the prison. There he first settled in Herndon, Virginia, and then in Washington DC. He married twice. His first wife, Mahin Banu Mirfendereski, died in 1974. He then married Nayer Moluk Sadoughi. He had three children from his first marriage. Batmanghelidj died of kidney failure at the Cameron Glen Care Center in Reston, Virginia, on 24 April 1998.{{cite news|title=Ex-Iranian General, Ambassador Dies|access-date=1 January 2022|work=Associated Press|date=28 April 1998 Honors Batmanghelidj was awarded the Order of Sepah and Legion of Merit both of which were from the Imperial Iran. ==References==