Karim Sanjabi

Karim Bakhtiar Sanjabi (; September 11, 1905 – July 4, 1995) was an Iranian politician, a member of The National Consultative Assembly. He was also a professor at Tehran University Law School and one of the leaders of Iran National Front and Iran Party. Sanjabi was also considered the Minister of Culture in the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran in the government of Mahdi Bazargan.

Early life He was born in Kermanshah in September 1905 to the chief of the Kurdish Sanjâbi tribe. The party became part of the National Front.

As the general secretary of the National Front during the revolutionary uprising of 1978–1979, Sanjabi and his colleagues initially wished to negotiate a peaceful solution with the Shah. However, on 3 November 1978, he met as representative of the National Front with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in France. Sanjabi emerged from his meeting "with a short declaration that spoke of both Islam and democracy as basic principles", and Sanjabi declared his support for Khomeini and joined his forces. Sanjabi believed and stated that without resolving the Palestinian issue there shall be no peace in the region. Sanjabi also condemned Shahpour Bakhtiar for accepting the Prime minister position offer by the Shah. He was replaced by Ebrahim Yazdi as minister of foreign affairs in April. The underground committee for revenge, a state-financed organization, proclaimed the responsibility of the bombing.

Later years and death Sanjabi left Iran in 1982 and went to Paris. Later he settled in the US. He died on 4 July 1995 at his home in Carbondale, Illinois, at the age of 89.