Career
Born in Tehran, he served as a two-time Mayor and Member of Parliament for Hamedan in 1950s and early 1960s. Amir Nosrat"ollah Balakhanlou was born in Tehran, Iran. He was one of the two sons of Commander Asad Khan of Talesh.
Ehtesham ol-Saltaneh was also one of the founding fathers of the Iranian Constitution during the Qajar dynasty.
As a young man, Amir North. Balakhanlou completed his higher education and his military service in the Royal Air Force Academy of Iran. In the mid-1950s, he served as the first publicly elected mayor of Hamedan.
He continued to serve a second term as the mayor, and in the early 1960s, became the Member of Parliament from Hamedan in Iran"s twenty-first (21st) round of Parliament (Majlis of Iran).
