User:Samabbas7/Mohammad Sam

Dr. Mohammad Sam (Pronounced Saam) (Born 1923 - ) is a former Interior Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.

Born in Kerman, Iran in 1923, he first climbed his way into college graduating with degrees English at the Tehran University. He attended University of Nebraska on a full scholarship to obtain his Master of Public Administration. Later he attended University of Southern California to obtain his PhD. in Public Administration. He was one of the first Iranian diplomats to have attended American universities.

Dr. Sam soon became Governor of Gilan, a province by the Caspian Sea, frm 1966-1970 and then Governor Isfahan1970-1972. He then became Minister of Information in the cabinet of Amir Abbas Hoveyda from 1972-1974. He was appointed Minister of Interior from 1974-1977.

He stayed in Iran during the commencement of the 1979 revolution believing that he had done nothing wrong during his public service and that he had served honorably. However, he went in hiding for a year and a half when he realized that his colleagues were being arrested and many executed without any fair trial.