Ahmad Ahmadi (; 1885–1944), known as ''Pezeshk Ahmadi'' meaning Physician Ahmadi, was born in

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. He worked as a nurse at

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, where he was ordered to kill

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; he was later

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

for these crimes.

Crimes

While he was employed at

, he was ordered to kill numerous

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s. Many political prisoners died under his notorious air injections. Some of the more famous were

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Abdolhossein Teymourtash Abdolhossein Teymourtash ( fa, عبدالحسین تیمورتاش; 25 September 1883 – 3 October 1933) was an influential Iranian statesman who served as the first minister of court of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited w ...

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and his brother Khānbābā Khān As'ad,

Taghi Arani Taqi Arani ( fa, تقی ارانی; September 5, 1903 – February 4, 1940), was a professor of chemistry, left-wing Iranian political activist, and the founder and editor of the Marxist magazine '' Donya'' (''The World''). Biography Arani ...

, and Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Najafi Khorasani (Ayatollah Aghazadeh). When the allies stormed into Iran in 1941,

Rezā Shāh , , spouse = Maryam Savadkoohi Tadj ol-Molouk Ayromlu (queen consort)Turan AmirsoleimaniEsmat Dowlatshahi , issue = Princess Hamdamsaltaneh Princess ShamsMohammad Reza Shah Princess Ashraf Prince Ali Reza Prince Gholam Reza Prin ...

of the

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was overthrown, and the judiciary, headed by Jalāl Abdeh, under popular pressure, was appointed to take many infamous figures such as Ahmadi to trial for their notorious crimes during the first Pahlavi era.

Trial and execution

After being released from exile in 1941, Iran Teymourtash travelled to Iraq and succeeded in arranging for Ahmadi's extradition to Iran on charges that he had killed her father, Abdolhossein Teymourtash. Ahmadi, along with Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief), Mostafā Rāsekh, and Hosein Niroumand, were arrested and sentenced for crimes committed during Rezā Shāh's reign. Ahmadi was found guilty for numerous murders by the court and was sentenced to death. He was executed in public in 1944 in Tehran's Toopkhāneh Square.

References

*ايران در سه قرن گذشته (''Iran in the Last Three Centuries'') by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol. 1 Vol. 2 * These Three Women: Ashraf Pahlavi, Mariam Firouz, and Iran Teymourtash, (EEn Se Zan") by Massoud Behnoud. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmadi, Ahmad 1885 births 1939 murders in Iran 1940 murders in Iran 1941 murders in Iran 1942 murders in Iran 1944 deaths 1940s murders in Iran 1930s murders in Iran Executed Iranian people Executed serial killers Iranian nurses Iranian people convicted of murder Iranian serial killers Male serial killers Medical practitioners convicted of murdering their patients Medical serial killers People convicted of murder by Iran People executed by Pahlavi Iran People from Mashhad

Crimes

Trial and execution

See also

References