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


In many sources, including one of the reports published by the British Embassy in Capital, regarding the great leap of the early forties and the economic and social developments, it is emphasized that “Mehdi Samii as the head of the Central Bank of Homeland, Alinqi Alikhani as the Minister of Economy, and Abolqasem Khardjo as the head of the Industrial and Mineral Bank And Safi Esfia, as the head of the program and budget organization, showed amazing coordination.

The artistic treasure of the Bank of Agriculture, with the title Mehr Hanar, is a remarkable example of the taste of this cultural banker. Hengameh Maammari has pointed out this point in the introduction of the Mehr Art Print Collection of Winter 2013. These works can be seen in the central office of the Tehran Agricultural Bank. After the revolution, Mehdi Sami, who was one of the elites and one of the most studied managers of the thirties to the fifties, became one of the few high-ranking managers in the country who was spared from the damage and violence of the revolution with the efforts and support of the employees of the Agricultural Development Fund.

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