- Kazem Sami
Dr. Kazem Sami Kermani was Iran's minister of health in the transitional government of
Mehdi Bazargan and leader of the Iranian Nation Liberation Movement ("JAMA"), an offshoot ofFreedom Movement of Iran , a liberal religious-nationalist movement affiliated withNational Front of Iran .Political career
Dr. Sami was was one of the leaders and organizers of the Iranian revolution. He served as the minister of health in the Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first minister of health after the
Iranian Revolution of 1979. He ran in the first Iranian presidential elections, but lost toAbolhassan Banisadr . He served as a deputy in the first post-revolutionary Iranian Parliament. After distancing himself from the revolutionary government, Dr Sami remained one of the few active opposition leaders in Iran, openly criticizing the Islamic Republic government. He also wrote a famous open letter toAyatollah Khomeini , criticizing him for the continuation of the Iran-Iraq after Iran had recovered her occupied territories, notably theliberation of Khorramshahr .Murder
Dr. Sami was murdered in his private medical clinic in 1989, under suspicious circumstances. He is believed to be one of the first victims of the
Chain murders of Iran . [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE6DC163EF93AA15752C1A96E948260 An Iranian Health Authority Is Reported Slain at a Clinic ] ]ee also
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