Talk:Bijan Jazani

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Ok, two things that have to be added to this article:

• Continue adding items to "Activity in an open Political Climate"
• Legacy of Bijan Jazani

I dont know how much information should be added to an article but I figure that as long as I am stating facts, it should be fine.

Please add your thoughts on this matter here. --prashidi 19:05, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I would like to add a biographical page with information about Hassan Zia-Zarifi, who along with Jazani is considered one of the ideological founders of the communist guerilla movement in Iran. Scivilized 17:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)Scivilized

What about his death? His enduring legacy?

I was surprised to see a page of this length on Wikipedia about Jazani. It is informative, but there are a few aspects which are lacking that would make it stronger. There is no detailed discussion of the circumstances of his death, and in addition, there needs to be more discussion of why he remains a significant figure in contemporary Iranian history. Adding more references to substantiate the claims made in this piece would also strengthen it, but I realize that Jazani and the Iranian left in general remain an understudied aspect of contemporary Iranian politics and history (----).

Evidence about his death

No Evidence has been presented in this article about his alleged "murder" by SAVAK! Speculations without legitimate proof must be deleted. Also the whole article is obviously biased and looks like official oppinions of the communist party instead of a neutral biography! Shir-e-Iran (talk) 23:16, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Here's your evidence:

We took the prisoners to the high hills above Evin. They were blind-folded and their hands were tied. We got them off the minibus and had them sit on the ground. Then, Attarpour told them that, just as your friends have killed our comrades, we have decided to execute you - the brain behind those executions. Jazani and the others began protesting. I do not know whether it was Attarpour or Colonel Vaziri who first pulled out a machine gun and started shooting them. I do not remember whether I was the 4th or 5th person to whom they gave the machine gun. I had never done that before. At the end, Sa'di Jalil Esfahani [another SAVAK agent, known as Babak] shot them in their heads [to make sure that they were dead]. [1]

--Sennaista (talk) 10:34, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

More on the evidence problem

Iagree that the evidence that SAVAK murdered Jazani and the other 8 prisoners in 1975 was clearly publicized by one of the executioners in 1979 during his trial. Obviously, that agent, a hit man, did not and likely could not comment on the reasons for the order to kill those particular prisoners (such as who made the final decision and why, especially at a time when Jazani was moving away from the urban guerilla fight tactic and more towards political activism, or if the decision was made by Shah himself or his foreign advisors, etc., who were worried about any genuine ideologists for the future when there would be a real need for leadership when there was a vacuum in leadership that resulted in the islamists' take over, etc). This was besides all other indirect evidences. It goes without saying that no dictator and their notorious secret police would provide more material evidence for the history or to be used in a court against them; still this particular incidence is one of the best documented cases of crime. Gmotamedi 05:19, 27 February 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmotamedi (talk • contribs)