Houshang Nahavandi, former president of the University of Tehran, passed away in Belgium.
Houshang Nahavandi, a politician and one of the trusted figures of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, died at the age of 93.
Before the revolution, he was the head of the special office of Empress Farah Pahlavi.
Mr. Nahavandi settled in Belgium after the Iranian revolution and taught at universities in France.
He was educated in law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran and held a PhD in public economics from the University of Paris.
Mr. Nahavandi served as the Minister of Development and Housing, and in the final months of the monarchy, he was the Minister of Science.
Before becoming the Minister of Science, Mr. Nahavandi was the president of Pahlavi University in Shiraz and later the president of the University of Tehran.