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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 ...

Iranist Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

, pseudonym = , birth_name = , birth_date = December 16, 1937 , birth_place =

Isfahan Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Region, Isfahan Province, Iran. It is lo ...

, death_date = January 1997 (he was murdered by the islamic regime at age 59) , occupation = Writer,

Iranologist Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

, nationality = Iranian , ethnicity = , citizenship = , education = , alma_mater = , period = , genre = , subject = , movement = , notableworks = , spouse = , partner = , children = , relatives = , influences = , influenced = , awards = , signature = , website = , portaldisp = Ahmad Tafazzoli (December 16, 1937,

– January 15, 1997,

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

) ( fa, احمد تفضلی) was a prominent

and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at

Tehran University The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching p ...

. One of his most important books is ''Pre-Islamic Persian Literature''. Jaleh Amouzegar contributed in editing it. In January 1997, Ahmad Tafazzoli was found dead in

Punak Punak is an upper-class neighborhood in north Tehran, the capital city of 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 ...

, a suburb northwest of Tehran. He was known to have contacts with Iranian academics working abroad, and many of his colleagues believed that the authorities were behind his death, as part of the

chain murders of Iran The chain murders of Iran ( fa, قتل‌های زنجیره‌ای ایران) were a series of 1988–98 murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system. The murders an ...

. While the precise circumstances remained unclear, Tafazzoli's death created a

climate of fear Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept that people may incite fear in the general public to achieve political or workplace goals through emotional bias; it was developed as a sociological framework by Frank Furedi and has been mo ...

at the university and discouraged criticism of the government.

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Names of 47 victims of political killings in Iran sent to UN Human Rights High Commissioner
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