Farajollah Mizani | |
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| Born | 1925 |
| Died | 1988 (aged 62–63) Iran |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Political party | Tudeh Party |
Farajollah Mizani ( Persian: فرجالله میزانی), also known by pseudonym and pen name Javanshir [1] ( Persian: جوانشیر, lit. 'young lion'), was an Iranian communist and a senior Tudeh Party member.
Early life and education
Mizani was born in 1925 in Tabriz. [1] He studied engineering at University of Tehran. [1] Years later he was graduated with a PhD in Persian literature from a Soviet university. [1]
Career
Mizani joined Tudeh Party in 1945, while he was a university student. [1] In 1957, he fled to the Soviet Union and was exiled until 1979. While there, for some time he headed the party's clandestine radio named Peyk-e-Iran and studied at university. [1] After Iranian Revolution, he returned to Iran [1] and was a member of the party's central committee. [2] In 1983, he was arrested by the Islamic Republic government and put on trial. [3] He was among those who were killed during 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. [1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. pp. 192–3, 195. ISBN 0520922905.
- ^ Vahabzadeh, Peyman (2010). Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation In Iran, 1971–1979. Syracuse University Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780815651475.
- ^ Zabir, Sepehr (2012), The Left in Contemporary Iran (RLE Iran D), CRC Press, p. 67, ISBN 978-1-136-81263-7
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