Nasrollah Entezam

Nasrollah Entezam (; also spelled Naṣr-Allāh Enteẓām; 16 February 1900 – 19 December 1980) was a diplomat, politician, and minister, as well as Iranian Ambassador to the United States and France. His mother, Khorshid Laqa Ghaffari, was descended from the Ghaffari family of Kashan. Nasrollah and his brother both studied at the German Embassy School in Tehran. Entezam then studied political science at the University of Tehran and law at the University of Paris.

Career In 1918, following World War I, Entezam joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before serving as the Secretary to the Iranian Legations in Paris, Warsaw, Bern, and London between 1926 and 1929. He represented the Iranian government at the World Economic Conference in London in 1933 and was Iran's chargé d'affaires in Bern and deputy head of the Iranian delegation between 1934 and 1938. He continued in foreign affairs following the war by representing Iran at the San Francisco Conference in 1945, the gathering that established the United Nations, and at the first session of the General Assembly in 1946. In 1947, he became Iran's permanent representative to the UN and joined the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, and in 1949 "served 'with distinction' as chairman of the Assembly's Special Political Committee." He was the first non-Christian diplomat at the General Assembly in New York and served as Iran ambassador to the United States until 1952, when he was removed and replaced by Allah-Yar Saleh under Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Entezam was instead installed at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Following the Indo-Pakistani War in 1965, Entezam served as a member and judge on the dispute over the boundaries of the warring nations, namely the Rann of Kutch. He is buried in Behesht-e Zahra. Entezam was also a freemason.