Ali Akbar Tabatabaei (Persian: ???????? ????????? pronunciation , born in Hamedan on 4 September 1930 – died 22 July 1980) was an Iranian exile and former press attache to the Iranian embassy in the United States during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.After the Iranian Revolution, he went into exile in the United States criticizing the regime of the Iranian Revolution.
He became president of the Iran Freedom Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland.