Heshmat Raisi (Persian: حشمت رئیسی) was an Iranian communist who was a member of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.
Heshmat Raisi | |
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 Raisi at University of Tehran, 1979 | |
| Born | Heshmatollah Raisi[1] 1945 (age 78–79)[2] |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | OIPFG |
Career
editRaisi was a guerilla fighting against Pahlavi dynasty, and he was arrested and imprisoned in the 1970s.[2] After the Iranian Revolution, he was released from prison and became an alternate member in the central committee of the OIPFG.[1] In 1979, he unsuccessfully ran for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency, garnering only 90,641 votes.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Vahabzadeh, Peyman (2010). Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation In Iran, 1971–1979. Syracuse University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780815651475.
- ^ a b Iranian Socialist and Communist Parties, Organizations and Groups Archives, International Institute of Social History, p. 7, ARCH01857
- ^ Mirsepassi, Ali (2004), The Tragedy of the Iranian Left, RoutledgeCurzon, Table 10.3 Selected leftist candidates in the Tehran elections for the Assembly of Experts
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