Sayyid Hassan Emami (Persian: سید حسن امامی; 1903–1981) was an Iranian Shia cleric and royalist politician.
[1] He was regarded as a member of the Mohammad Reza Shah's inner circle, and had close ties to bazaari and traditional classes, as well as Masonic lodges.
[3] He discarded his religious attire after he returned from Switzerland, where he studied continental law, but resumed wearing it when he was appointed as Tehran's Friday prayer imam in 1947.
[3] In 1952 Iranian legislative election, Emami stood as a candidate from Kurdish and Sunni city of Mahabad, where he had never been.
[5] Emami fled the country following the 21 July pro-Mohammad Mossadegh demonstrations and offered his resignation in a message from Geneva.