Saber Mohammadzadeh

Saber Mohammadzadeh (Persian: صابر محمدزاده) was an Iranian communist politician.

Saber Mohammadzadeh
Mohammadzadeh in 1979
Died1988
Iran
Cause of deathExecution
NationalityIranian
Political partyTudeh Party

In 1966, he was arrested by the government and the Pahlavi dynasty courts sentenced him to death.

Due to protests from international communist parties, the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.[1]

After the Iranian Revolution, he ran for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency.[2]

Mohammadzadeh was a victim of the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.[3]

References

  1. Mather, Yassamine (2011), "Iran's Tudeh Party: A History of Compromises and Betrayals", Journal of Socialist Theory, 39 (4): 611–627, doi:10.1080/03017605.2011.621250
  2. Near East/North Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 2012, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1979, p. 58
  3. JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia, Joint Publications Research Service, vol. 89009, Executive Office of the President, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1989, p. 67
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