Amir Hossein Fetanat was born in 1949 in Shiraz. He graduated in Civil Engineering from Pahlavi University and got an M.A. in Management from the industrial management organization in capital.As a teenager, he was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of hijacking, and upon the victory of the Islamic Revolution was sentenced to death in absentia by Marxist groups on charges of treason, in one of the most controversial political cases at the time of the Mohammad Reza Shah called ‘the plot to take the crown prince hostage and assassinate the members of the Royal Family’.