Fereydoon Abbasi

Fereydoon Abbasi Davani
Abbasi in 2015
Member of the Parliament of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 May 2020
Preceded by	Hossein Rezazadeh
Constituency	Kazerun and Kohchenar
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization
In office 13 February 2011 – 16 August 2013
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Deputy	Mohammad Ahmadian
Preceded by	Mohammad Ahmadian (Acting)
Succeeded by	Ali Akbar Salehi
Personal details
Born	(1958-07-11) 11 July 1958 (age 65) Abadan, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists
Alma mater	Shahid Beheshti University
Military service
Branch/service	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Rank	Brigadier general

Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani (Persian: فریدون عباسی دوانی; born 11 July 1958) is an Iranian nuclear scientist who was head of the Atomic Energy Organization from 2011 to 2013. He survived an assassination attempt in 2010, but was wounded. He is a conservative and principlist politician.