Career
He joined the Navy in 1929 and was trained at Naval Academy of Livorno. Under his command, the Iranian Navy took controll over the Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands 30 November 1971 from the Emirate of Sharjah. After he retired in 1972, he was an Iranian Senator until the Islamic Revolution when he fled Iran and lived in the United States until his death in 2002.