Yadollah Sahabi (Persian: یدالله سحابی) (25 February 1905[citation needed] – 12 April 2002) was a prominent Iranian scholar, writer, reformist and politician.

[2] A close associate of Mohammad Mosaddegh and Mehdi Bazargan, Sahabi was an active campaigner for the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in the 1950s.

Sahabi studied at Université Lille Nord de France and majored in Geology.

He got his Ph.D. degree in 1936 and was immediately hired by Tehran University, faculty of science.

He was an advocate of pluralism nationalization[3] He was a full professor at Tehran University and well-credited writer.