[custom_adv] Sadeq Tabatabaei (25 March 1943 – 21 February 2015) was an Iranian writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1979 to 1980. [custom_adv] He was also Deputy Minister of the Interior and oversaw the referendum on establishing an Islamic Republic in March 1979. He was Iran's Ambassador to West Germany from 1982 until 1986. [custom_adv] Tabatabaei was born on 12 December 1943 in the city of Qom. He was the son of Ayatollah Mohammad-Bagher Tabatabaei and nephew of Musa al-Sadr. [custom_adv] His sister, Fatemeh was married to Ahmad Khomeini, son of Ruhollah Khomeini, thereby making him the uncle of Hassan Khomeini. [custom_adv] After completing his elementary education, he moved to Germany along with his uncle, Musa al-Sadr and began studying in chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum. [custom_adv] After graduating, he became a professor at the university and also a member of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft .In 1961, Sadegh Tabatabai went to Aachen to study biochemistry and later received his doctorate from the University of Bochum. [custom_adv] While in Aachen, he organized a student group that campaigned against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1967, he handled Ulrike Meinhof material about Iran, which was used in a famous column in Konkret magazine opposing the Shah's visit to West Germany that year. [custom_adv] gave a speech at the grave of Benno Ohnesorg, an unarmed university student who was shot during a demonstration against the Shah's visit to the Deutsche Oper in Berlin by Karl-Heinz Kurras, a police officer later discovered to be an agent of the East German secret police, the Stasi. [custom_adv] During studying, he met with Mehdi Bazargan and joined his party, Freedom Movement. He became a supporter of Ruhollah Khomeini and published many articles about him and his movement in German newspapers. [custom_adv] He had served many coordination meetings with Khomeini at Paris. After Revolution victory, he became Head of Department of Political and Social at Ministry of Interior and assumed the task of holding the 1979 referendum which resulted in the establishment of the Islamic Republic. [custom_adv] After that, he was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister by Mehdi Bazargan just hours before his resignation. He was also spokesman of the caretaker government and held the post until Mohammad-Ali Rajai became new prime minister. [custom_adv] He was also a candidate in the 1980 presidential election, placing fifth among one hundred and twenty-seven candidates. [custom_adv] He was also a possible candidate for 2009 election which he withdrew in favor of Mohsen Rezaee and later became one of his advisers and campaign members. [custom_adv] He was also his deputy manager of campaign in 2013 election and possible vice president candidate.On 21 February 2015, he died in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he had resid
