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The Fifty-Three
The Fifty-Three were a group of 53 Iranians arrested for involvement in communist politics, political activities in 1937 and brought to trial in November 1938 in the most sensational of the political trials held during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi. Some, such as Dr. Taqi Arani, died in jail - the rest were released in 1941. As a result of the similarity with the prosecution of the Old Bolsheviks in the Stalinism, Stalinist show trials in the Soviet Union in 1936–1938, some jested that Rezā Shāh was performing an imitation of Joseph Stalin. The fifty-five were: * 1. Taqi Arani * 2. Abdul-Samad Kambakhsh * 3. Mohammad Bahrami * 4. Mohammad Shureshyan * 5. Ali Sadeqpour * 6. Mohammad Boqrati * 7. Ziya Alamutti * 8. Mohammad Pazhuh * 9. Mohammad Farjami * 10. Abbas Azeri * 11. Nasratallah Ezazi * 12. Anvar Khamei * 13. Nosrat-ollah Jahanshahlou * 14. Emad Alamutti * 15. Akbar Ashfar * 16. Taqi Makinezhad * 17. Mojtaba Sajjadi * 18. Bozorg Alavi * 19. Mehdi Rasai * 20. Iraj Esk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Azeri
Abbas may refer to: People * Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including: ** Abbas ibn Ali, Popularly known as Hazrat-e-Abbas (brother of Imam Hussayn) **Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad ** Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), Palestinian president ** Abbas (actor) (born 1975), Indian actor ** Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Fifth Safavid Shah of Iran Places Algeria * Kingdom of Ait Abbas ** Kalâa of Ait Abbas Azerbaijan * Abbas, Azerbaijan Iraq * Al Abbas Mosque, shrine of Abbas ibn Ali in Karbala Iran Khuzestan Province * Abbas, Ahvaz * Abbas, Behbahan Lorestan Province * Abbas, Dowreh * Abbas Barfi * Abbas-e Kalpat United Kingdom In English place-names the affix "Abbas" denotes former ownership by an abbey. * Abbas Combe, Somerset * Abbas Hall, Suffolk * Bradford Abbas, Dorset * Cerne Abbas, Dorset * Compton Abbas, Dorset * Itchen Abbas, Hampshire * Melbury Abbas, Dorset * Milton Abbas, Dorset * Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset See also * Abba (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khalil Maleki
Khalil Maleki ( fa, خلیل ملکی; 1901–1969) was an Iranian socialist political figure and intellectual affiliated with the National Front. Political career and activities During the early 1940s, Maleki had been one of 53 left-wing intellectuals who had been imprisoned by Reza Shah. After his release, he had been one of the original founders of the Tudeh Party (i.e. party of the masses), a communist and pro-USSR organization that desired to transform Iran into a socialist state modeled on that of the Soviet Union. The group played a significant role in organizing labor unrest and pushing for improved wages and living conditions for the working class of Iran, particularly those working in the oil fields of Khuzestan (then under the control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company or AIOC). But the party was widely believed to be taking its orders from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and because of this, many Iranians regarded them as traitors. In time, Maleki came to believe that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Radmanesh
Reza Radmanesh ( fa, رضا رادمنش; 1905/1906–1983) was an Iranian physicist, communist politician and general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran. According to Abbas Milani, he was "one of the most prominent members of the Iranian communist movement". Early life and education Radmanesh was born into a Gilak landed upper-class family. He helped the local Jangalis as a teenager; and joined the Socialist Party while he studied at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, and met Taghi Arani, before he returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. Career Radmanesh was a leading and dominating personality in the Tudeh Party of Iran, serving as a member of the party's central committee, head of its youth wing and its parliamentary leader A parliamentary leader is a political title or a descriptive term used in various countries to designate the person leading a parliamentary group or caucus in a legis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morteza Yazdi
Morteza Yazdi ( fa, مرتضی یزدی) was an Iranian surgeon and communist politician. Early life and education Yazdi was born into a senior clerical family in 1907 in Yazd. His father was a senior cleric who contributed to the Persian Constitutional Revolution. Following death of his father, Ebrahim Hakimi served as his foster father. He studied medicine at Berlin University, and was associated with Taqi Arani during his presence in Berlin. Following his return to Iran, he became involved with the Communist Party of Persia and subsequently was arrested as one of " The Fifty-Three". Career Yazdi was among co-founders of the Tudeh Party of Iran in 1941. Then he became a member of the party's central council, and belonged to the party's moderate faction. He ran for a Tehran seat in the 1944 parliamentary election to no avail, garnering 4,719 out of some 41,000 votes (about 11.5%). Yazdi was named as the health minister in the Coalition government of Ahmad Qavam Prime Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraj Eskandari
Iraj Eskandari ( fa, ایرج اسکندری; 1907–1985) was an Iranian communist politician. A Qajar prince, Eskandari received French education.Behrooz, Maziar. Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran'. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. p. 75 He was the first general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran and a member of parliament. In the summer of 1946 he was named a Minister of Commerce and Industry in Qavam's coalition cabinet. He belonged to the " group of fifty-three". Eskandari was identified at the time as the leader of the dominant, moderate faction in the party leadership, along with Reza Radmanesh. Early life Iraj Eskandari was born in 1907 in Tehran. His father was Yahya Mirza Eskandari, one of Qajar princes in favor of the Persian Constitution of 1906, and his uncle, Soleiman Eskandari, was also a constitutionalist Qajar prince. He started his education at first in the school of "Sepehr", then he enrolled in Dar ul-Funun and finally he studied at the Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Rasai
Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United States of America. This name is a variation of the name Mahdi which has an Arabic origin. Other, less common, variations are Medi, Mehti, Meyti. People with the given name Arts and entertainment * DJ Mehdi (1977–2011), French hip hop and house producer * Mehdi Bagheri (born 1980), Iranian kamancheh player and composer * Mehdi Bahmad, Moroccan-born Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist * Mehdi Bajestani (born 1974), Iranian actor * Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Iranian musician and composer * Mehdi Charef, French-Algerian film director and screenwriter * Mehdi Dehbi (born 1985), Belgian actor and theatre director * Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, French-Tunisian hip hop and electro producer, better k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bozorg Alavi
Bozorg Alavi ( fa, بزرگ علوی) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s andfollowing the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadeghspent the rest of his life in exile in East Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. ''Cheshm'hā'yash'' (Her Eyes), which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned, is considered his finest novel. Alavi was also a very close friend of Iran's famous writer Sadegh Hedayat; these two created a literary group when they were residing in Paris called "sab'e group". Although ''Her Eyes'' is considered his masterpiece, Alavi also wrote many other books, such as the novel "''Chamedan"'' (suitcase) which was written under the influence of Freudian psychology. His other novels "''Mirza",'' "''Fifty Three Persons"'' and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mojtaba Sajjadi
Mojtaba or Mujtaba ( fa, مجتبی) is an Iranian male given name. It originates from the Arabic language, meaning the ''chosen''. The name has an Islamic background and is considerably popular among the Shiites and Sufis as it is one of the honorary epithets of Hasan ibn Ali, the 2nd Imam of Shia Islam. People named Mojtaba * Mojtaba Abedini (born 1984), Iranian Olympic fencer * Mojtaba Haghdoust (born 1996), Iranian football player for Foolad F.C. * Mojtaba Heidarpanah (born 1990), Iranian cartoonist and illustrator *Mojtaba Jabbari (born 1983), retired Iranian football player for Esteghlal F.C. * Mojtaba Khamenei (born 1969), Iranian hard-line cleric and a son of Ali Khamenei * Mojtaba Minovi (1903–1977), Iranian historian, literary scholar and professor of Tehran University *Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (born 1971), Iranian filmmaker and producer *Mojtaba Mirzadeh (1946–2005), Iranian composer of Persian classical music *Mojtaba Moharrami (born 1965), former Iranian footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taqi Makinezhad
Taqi or Taghi ( fa, تقی, translit=Taqī, az, Tağı) is a male Arabic given name and surname. It may refer to: Compound forms given on further disambiguation pages *Mohammad Taqi (other) *Taqi al-Din (other) Early imams *Muhammad al-Taqi (811 – 835), ninth Shi'a Imam *Taqi Muhammad (813/814 – 839/840), ninth Ismāʿīlī Imam Male given name *Taqi Arani (1903–1940), Iranian political activist *Taqi Mubarak (born 1978), Omani footballer *Taghi Riahi (1911–1989), Iranian military officer and politician *Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi (1923–2016), Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja *Taghi Taghiyev (1917-1993), an Azeri painter Middle name *Ahmad Taqi Sheikh Mohammed Rashid (1940–1974), Oromo nationalist (Ethiopia) * Mir Taqi Mir (1722–1810), Urdu poet * Mirza Taghi Khan Amir-Nezam, known as Amir Kabir Mirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani ( fa, میرزا تقیخان فراهانی), better known as Amir Kabir (Persian: , 9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbar Ashfar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great ( fa, ), and also as Akbar I (), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under a regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India. A strong personality and a successful general, Akbar gradually enlarged the Mughal Empire to include much of the Indian subcontinent. His power and influence, however, extended over the entire subcontinent because of Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system of administration throughout his empire and adopted a policy of conciliating conquered rulers through marriage and diplomacy. To preserve peace and order in a religiously and culturally diverse empire, he adopted policies that won him the support of his non-Muslim subjects. Eschewing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emad Alamutti
Imad (also transliterated as Emad, Imed and Aimad ar, عماد) is an Arabic masculine given name and surname and means "support" or "pillar". Given name * Imād ad-Dīn Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad Caliphate general * Imad Abbas, Palestinian military commander * Imad Baba, American soccer player * Emad Hajjaj, Jordanian political cartoonist * Emad al-Janabi, Iraqi blacksmith * Imad Khalili, Swedish footballer * Imad Khamis, Syrian politician * Imad Kotbi, Moroccan radio presenter * Emad Mohammed, Iraqi footballer * Imad Rahman, Pakistani American fiction writer * Imad Rami, Syrian Nasheed singer * Imad Wasim, Pakistani international cricketer * Imad Feghaly, Lebanese actor and voice actor * Imad Abullah Sarah, Syrian politician Imed * Imed Abdelnabbi (born 1957), Egyptian chess player * Imed Louati (born 1993), Tunisian footballer * Imed Memmich (born 1966), Tunisian scholar and politician * Imed Meniaoui (born 1983), Tunisian footballer * Imed Mhedhebi (born 1976), Tuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
