Mohammad-Hassan Shamshiri (Persian: محمدحسن شمشیری), more known as Haj Hasan Shamshiri,[1] was an Iranian bazaari restaurateur, philanthropist and civic patriotic activist.
[2] Shamshiri was among leading members of the Chelow kabab guild[2] and a patron of the National Front and its affiliated parties.
He purchased a substantional amount of the bonds issued by Governments of Mohammad Mosaddegh to support his cause.
[3] After the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, he continued his financial contributions and grassroots supports to the nationalist 'National Resistance Movement (NRM)',[4] and was subsequently banished to an island in the Persian Gulf by the post-coup government.
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