Farajollah Mizani
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.
Farajollah Mizani | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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
- 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
| Party political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Noureddin Kianouri |
Second Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran 1979–1984 |
Succeeded by Hamid Safari |
| Preceded by Amanollah Qoreishi |
Secretary-in-Charge of Tehran Provincial Committee of Tudeh Party 1953–1957 |
Vacant Title next held by Abbas Hajari |