Rashid Hasanzadeh

Agha Hasanzadeh was noted for his acerbic, indeed frequently acrobatic, commentaries on matters pertaining to international relations.

Rashid Hasanzadeh, Hero of the Revolution, (born 3.III.1658) is the current Secretary of the Central Committee of Foreign Relations of the Union of the Republics of Zeed, and is thereby the Zeed analogue for a foreign minister.

Born in the Green of Eura, he received no formal schooling. His father died when he was three. However, he was taught by his mother's brother how to read and write Babkhi and Istvanistani, and spent most childhood days in a local library lacking electricity. Once it was too dark to read, he helped his mother with household chores. His friends, though respecting him for his intelligence and integrity, teased him for not being manly enough.

He never learnt to understand mathematics or accounting. His wife, Leila, his best friend Omar's older sister, deals with the household budget.

In 1688, he took part in the revolution that created the state of Zeed. He was a few months later promoted to Secretary of the Central Committee of Foreign Relations, and given the honour of Hero of the Revolution. In 1690, he attended the signing of the Vesüha Accords and the establishment of a sovereign Hurmu state.

Later, Rashid Hasanzadeh's penchant for trenchant diplomacy would see Dāryuš of the Suren, Shahanshah of the Suren Confederacy denounce the Secretary as "Naught but a tired old windbag with dodgy knees."