Английская Википедия:Habib Sabet
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Habib Sabet (Шаблон:Lang-fa; 1903 – 1990) was a businessman and follower of the Baháʼí Faith.[1][2] He is considered one of Iran's major industrialists.[3]
Biography
Sabet was born in Tehran in 1903.[1] Both his maternal and paternal grandparents were Iranian Jews who had converted to the Bahá’i Faith.[4] He began to involve in business selling tobacco and renting bicycles.[5] In 1925 he went to Beirut where he started his transport services between Tehran and Baghdad.[6] In the 1950s his business activities expanded and mostly included car dealerships, manufacturing, and agricultural machinery.[5]
One of his companies was Firooz Trading Company.[7] He was granted the franchises of many American and European brands, including General Electric, Kelvinator, Westinghouse and Volkswagen.[8] In 1955 he managed to acquire the rights to bottle Pepsi Cola in Iran.[5] However, the same year due to the anti-Baháʼí movements and the fatwa of Ayatollah Hossein Borujerdi against Pepsi Sabet became the target of the attacks.[5]
Sabet was also the founder of Iran's first television station.[3][9] His television station was called "Iran Television" which was launched in Tehran on 23 October 1958.[7]
Sabet left Iran before the regime change in 1979,[6] and he spent his remaining years in Paris, France. He died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure in 1990 at the age of 86.[6][10] He had the Sabet Pasal built in Tehran, a palace modeled after the Petit Trianon in Versailles.[11] His companies and other assets were confiscated by the Islamic government of Iran shortly after its establishment.[6]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Sabet, Habib Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ TV Turns 60 In Iran With Biased, Ideological Programming And Low Credibility Radio Farda
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 5,3 Шаблон:Cite thesis
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 6,3 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite thesis
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite thesis
- ↑ Sabet, Habib Encyclopædia Iranica
- ↑ Habib Sabet Is Dead; An Iranian Altruist And Industrialist, The New York Times, 24 February 1990, p.30
- ↑ Sabet Pasal Protection Prioritized by ICHHTO, Financial Tribune, 13 June 2017
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