He studied Medicine at the University of Tehran, but left his studies before receiving his MD degree to accept a diplomatic post in Turkey, as the Economic Secretary of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).
Google News reprints of the Virgin Islands Daily News (Feb 17, 1979) and the Los Angeles Times (Feb 15, 1979) indicate that with the withdrawal of Iran, the secretary-general of CENTO, a Turkish diplomat, called a meeting of the pact's council in order to formally dissolve the organization.
During the Cold War, in England and the U.S., it refers to the Four Middle Eastern members of the Central Treaty Organization: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.
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