Habib Sabet

Habib Sabet Pasal (1903 – 1993) was a businessman and follower of the Baháʼí Faith.[1][2] He is considered one of Iran's major industrialists, and was also the founder of Iran's first television station.[3][4] 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.[5]

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

See also

References
  1. Encyclopædia Iranica, Sabet, Habib
  2. TV Turns 60 In Iran With Biased, Ideological Programming And Low Credibility
  3. Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979, Abbas Milani.
  4. Encyclopædia Iranica
  5. Habib Sabet Is Dead; An Iranian Altruist And Industrialist, The New York Times, February 24, 1990, page 30
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