Marzieh Hadidchi ( fa, مرضیه حدیدچی, 12 June 1939 – 17 November 2016), also known as Marzieh Dabbaq and Tahere Dabagh, was an Iranian Islamist activist, political prisoner, military commander in the Iran–Iraq War, a politician and representative of Hamedan in the Iranian parliament in the second, third, fourth and the fifth Majles. She was also one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Early activity

She started her political activities with the Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Saidi circle. She was arrested by

SAVAK SAVAK ( fa, ساواک, abbreviation for ''Sâzemân-e Ettelâ'ât va Amniat-e Kešvar'', ) was the secret police, domestic security and intelligence service in Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. SAVAK operated from 1957 until prime ...

in 1972 and severely tortured. SAVAK also arrested and tortured her 14-year-old daughter ( Rezvaneh Mirza Dabagh). She escaped prison by

Mohammad Montazeri Mohammad Montazeri fa, محمد منتظری (1944–28 June 1981) was an Iranian cleric and military figure. He was one of the founding members and early chiefs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was assassinated in a bombing in Tehr ...

's efforts and went to London with a fake

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and after 6 months she moved to Lebanon, where she learned military tactics under supervision of Mostafa Chamran. She accompanied

Ayatollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

during his exile in Paris.

After revolution

After the revolution, she became the chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Hamedan. She was one of the three messengers of

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in 1989. She has been the representative of Parliament of Iran for three terms. She had headed

The Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic The Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic ( fa, جمعیت زنان جمهوری اسلامی, ''Jam’iat-e Zanan-e Jomhouri-e Islami'') is an Iranian reformist political party. It was the first officially registered party of the Islami ...

from 1987 until 2012. She died on 17 November 2016 at Tehran's Khatam Anbia Hospital after long illness. She was buried on the following day in near

Mausoleum of Khomeini The mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini ( fa, آرامگاه روح الله خمینی) houses the tombs of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, his wife Khadijeh Saqafi, and his second son Ahmad Khomeini; and some political figures, such as former President ...

in Behesht-e Zahra.

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