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Shahin Fatemi (born 15 May 1935) is an Iranian politician and economist. He was a leader of the student opposition to the Shah in the 1960s and together with Ali Amini the founder of the Front for the Liberation of Iran party, an exiled opposition to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shahin Fatemi served as Dean of the Graduate School of Business at The American University of Paris.

Early Life
Shahin Fatemi was born in Isfahan, the son of Farajallah Mesbah Fatemi, a major landowner. His uncle Hossein Fatemi was a Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran in the cabinet of Mohammad Mosaddegh. He is also the nephew of the late Nasrollah Saifpour Fatemi, a governor and member of the parliament in Iran, delegate to the UN and director of the Graduate Institute of International Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

One year after the coup, Fatemi moved to the US in September 1954 where he enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Political Activities
In 1979 the Shah went into exile, Ayatollah Khomeini became Supreme Leader of Iran and an Islamic republic was declared in Iran.

Together with the former premier minister Ali Amini, in 1981 Fatemi founded the Front for Liberation of Iran (FIL), an opposition party to the Islamic Republic.