Nasser Yeganeh

Nasser Yeganeh was an Iranian jurist, politician and statesman. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the head of the Iranian judiciary, brought in during Amir-Abbas Hoveyda's tenure.

Early life and education

Yeganeh was born in 1921, to an aristocratic family in Qazvin. His father, Mirza Ghaffar Khan Yeganeh, was the Hakim of Qazvin. Yeganeh attended primary and secondary school in Qazvin before going to the University of Tehran where he received a Bachelor of Laws. He then went to France to pursue a PhD in Public Law from the Sorbonne. Following his graduation, Yeganeh traveled to the United States where he studied the American judicial system.

Career

Yeganeh served as deputy in 1963. He was the minister of state, senator and chief justice of the Supreme Court. He also served as the deputy prime minister in the cabinet led by Hassan Ali Mansur in the period between March 1964 and January 1965.

Death

Yeganeh fled to the United States following the Iranian revolution and on 15 November 1993 committed suicide on his boat in Washington, D.C.