Habib Sabet

Habib Sabet Pasal (Persian: حبیب ثابت‎; 1903 – 1993) was a businessman and follower of the Baháʼí Faith.[1][2] Both his maternal and paternal grandparents were Iranian Jews who had converted to the Bahá’i Faith.[3] He is considered one of Iran's major industrialists, and was also the founder of Iran's first television station.[4][5] Sabet spent his remaining years in Paris, France. Sabet died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at the age of 86.[6]

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (last Shah of Iran) with Habib Sabet during a visit to a television centre

He had the Sabet Pasal built in Tehran, a palace modeled after the Petit Trianon in Versailles.[7]

See also

References
  1. Encyclopædia Iranica, Sabet, Habib
  2. TV Turns 60 In Iran With Biased, Ideological Programming And Low Credibility
  3. "SABET, HABIB".
  4. Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Abbas Milani.
  5. Encyclopædia Iranica
  6. Habib Sabet Is Dead; An Iranian Altruist And Industrialist, The New York Times, February 24, 1990, page 30
  7. Sabet Pasal Protection Prioritized by ICHHTO, Financialtribune.com, 13 June 2017
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