Sadeq Tabatabaei

Sadeq Tabatabaei
Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Public Relations
In office August 1979 – 6 November 1979
Prime Minister	Mehdi Bazargan
Preceded by	Abbas Amir-Entezam
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	(1943-03-25)25 March 1943 Qom, Imperial State of Iran
Died	21 February 2015(2015-02-21) (aged 71) Düsseldorf, Germany
Political party	Freedom Movement (1969–1980)
Spouse	Fatemeh Sadrameli (1965–2015, his death)
Relations	Musa al-Sadr (uncle) Ahmad Khomeini (brother-in-law) Hassan Khomeini (nephew) Zohreh Sadeghi (cousin)
Children	2
Alma mater	Ruhr University Bochum
Profession	Politician, writer and TV host
Website	sadeghtabatabai.com

Sadeq Tabatabaei (Persian: صادق طباطبایی‎; 25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980. He was also Deputy Minister of the Interior and oversaw the referendum on establishing an Islamic Republic in March 1979. He was Iran's Ambassador to West Germany from 1982 until 1986.