Sadegh Amirazizi

Following his graduation Amirazizi worked at different divisions of the army.^[2] In 1946 he was named the deputy dean of the officer's college in Tehran and was promoted to the rank of major general in 1947.^[2] He served as the head of the appeals court during the trial of Mohammad-Vali Gharani, an Iranian military officer, who was accused of planning a coup d'état against the Pahlavi regime in 1958.^[3] He was appointed minister of interior in March 1961 to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Jafar Sharif Emami.^[1][4] He continued to serve in the same post in the next cabinet which was formed by Ali Amini on 9 May 1961.^[5] Amirazizi was one of four ministers who did not sign the land reform law dated January 1962.^[5] Amirazizi held the same post in the following cabinet led by Prime Minister Asadollah Alam and remained in office until 18 February 1963.^[1] He was appointed minister of state to Alam's second cabinet which was formed on 19 February 1963^[6] and held post until March 1964 when the cabinet was dissolved after the resignation of the prime minister.^[7]

Amirazizi was named governor of Khorasan in May 1963^[8] and then became the deputy head of Astan Quds Razavi, a royal foundation which managed the Imam Reza shrine.^[2] In early 1978, he was appointed patron of Astan Quds Razavi, but soon he resigned from the office.^[2] Amirazizi was named minister of interior to the military government led by Gholam Reza Azhari.^[2]

After the 1979 revolution Amirazizi settled in Paris and died there in 1992.^[2] He was buried in Beheshte Zahra Cemetery in Iran.^[2]

Amirazizi was the recipient of Spain's order of civil merit.^[2]