Education
University of Tehran. University of Paris.
University of Tehran. University of Paris.
He was previously Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the head of the Iranian judiciary, brought in during Amir-Abbas Hoveyda"s tenure. Yeganeh served as Majles Deputy, 1963. Minister of State, 1963-1971.
Senator, 1971-1974.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iran, 1975-1979. Yeganeh was born in 1921, to an aristocratic family in Qazvin. His father, Mirza Ghaffar Khan Yeganeh (more commonly known as Salar Mansour), was the Hakim (Governor) of Qazvin.
Yeganeh attended primary and secondary school in Qazvin before going to the University of Tehran where he received a Bachelor of Laws.
He then went to France to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Law from the Sorbonne. Following his graduation, Yeganeh traveled to the United States where he studied the American judicial system.
Yeganeh fled to the United States following the Iranian revolution and on 15 November, 1993 committed suicide on his boat in Washington, District of Columbia