
Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.
Iranian politician (1936–1982)
🗓️ April 7, 1982 • 📅 ACF Date: 19820407
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution. In 1982, he was executed for allegedly plotting the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini and the overthrow of the Islamic Republic.
















