Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei

Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei (Persian: محمدمهدی عبدخدایی) is an Iranian conservative activist.

Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
Bornc. 1936/1937 (age 83–85)[1]
NationalityIranian
Political partyFada'iyan-e Islam

Son of Sheikh Gholamhosein Mojtahed-e Tabrizi,[2] he had a lower-middle-class bazaari background and was a minor attendant in a small hardware store. In 1952, when he was a 15-year-old member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam, he attempted to assassinate FM Hossein Fatemi who survived the shooting.[1] Abdekhodaei was tried as a juvenile and imprisoned for twenty months.[2]

He revived the Fada'iyan-e Islam after the Iranian Revolution, though the organization is not a significant actor.[3]

References

  1. Denoeux, Guilain (1993). Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East. SUNY Press. p. 244. ISBN 9781438400846.
  2. Sohrab Behdad (1997). "Islamic Utopia in pre‐revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian‐e Eslam". Middle Eastern Studies. 33 (1): 40–65. doi:10.1080/00263209708701141.
  3. Rubin, B.M. (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. 2. Sharpe. p. 254. ISBN 9780765641380.
Party political offices
Vacant
Unknown
Secretary-General of the Fada'iyan-e Islam
Unknown–present
Incumbent


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