Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1936-02-24
Deathday
1982-09-15
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
Biography
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (24 February 1936 – 15 September 1982) was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister (30 November 1979 – August 1980) during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution. In 1982, he was executed for allegedly plotting the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
