Fereydoon Abbasi (11 July 1958-) was the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization from 13 February 2011 to 16 August 2013 (succeeding Mohammad Ahmadian and preceding Ali Akbar Salehi) and an Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists MP from 27 May 2020.
Biography[]
Fereydoon Abbasi was born in Abadan, Iran in 1958, and he joined the IRGC after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and worked as a physics professor at Shahid Beheshti University and chaired Imam Hossein University's physics department. He also did research for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and, on 29 November 2010, he survived a car bomb assassination attempt; that same day, however, fellow scientist Majid Shahriari was assassinated. Abbasi became head of the AEOI in 2011, and he refused to cooperate with international authorities and became a key scientist in Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi's covert nuclear weapons program. He was replaced as head of the AEOI in 2013, and he became a conservative and Principlist politician, becoming an MP in 2020.