Reza Saffar-Harandi ( fa, رضا صفارهرندی) was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

Muslim who was a member of

Islamic Coalition Party The Islamic Coalition Party) from 1963 to 1979 and "Islamic Coalition Society" ( fa, جمعیت مؤتلفه اسلامی, jamʿiyat-e moʾtalefe-ye eslâmi) from 1979 to 2004. (ICP; fa, حزب مؤتلفه اسلامی, ḥezb-e moʾtalefe-ye esl ...

. He was born in 1946 in a religious family; His brother was ''Ali-Asqar Harandi'' who was a Shia cleric. Reza Saffar-Harrandi, studied at (Islamic) religious lessons to his brother after passing his primary-school. He also used to work in his brother's shop. Saffar-Harandi had activities at his brother's mosque; and got acquainted there with

Mohammad Bokharaei Mohammad Bokharaei, ( fa, محمد بخارایی) was a member of the executive branch of the "Islamic Coalition Party" who was born in 1944 in (the south of) Tehran. He assassinated Hassan Ali Mansur (the prime minister of the Shah) and was exe ...

(the killer of Hassan Ali Mansur the prime minister of the

Shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

); Saffar-Harandi eventually became familiar with Islamic-Coalition-Party. This political-activist was Mohammad-Bokharaei's supporter in practice (in Mansur's assassination), and could escape from the area of the assassination, although was later arrested. Finally, he was executed by the regime of the Shah on 16 June 1965 beside his three colleagues, namely: Mohammad Bokharaei, Sadeq Amani and Morteza Niknejad, whose accusation was "participation in the assassination of Hassan Ali Mansur, the prime minister of that time".Martyrdom of Martyrs: Bokharaei/Amani/Harandi and Morteza-Niknejad
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{{Reflist Executed Iranian people Iranian prisoners sentenced to death Islamic Coalition Party politicians Iranian Islamists People from Tehran 1946 births 1965 deaths

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