Mehdi Samii, Head of the Central Bank during the Pahlavi period


At the same time as the oil nationalization movement, Mehdi Samii and Abolqasem Khardjou went to Abadan along with the Khaleed delegation at the request of Dr. Mossadegh to oversee the accounting and auditing operations of the oil company. The fall of Mossadegh’s government could have caused the migration of young nationalist elites, but the softness of the next prime minister, Lt. Gen. Zahedi, and the country’s need for elites prevented this. As Sami stayed, Khorjoo returned from an international management job in Southeast Asia. They and dozens of other educated young people went to the program organization at the invitation of an independent personality like Abolhassan Ebtahaj, who had big dreams in his head, to lay the foundation for planning and compiling a development program.