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


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. The employees of this fund, who knew about the humble, simple-minded, and book-reading manager, learned that the day after the victory of the revolution, the members of the Mandarieh Committee went to Sami’s house and arrested him like other officials of the collapsed regime.