Heshmatollah_Raisi

Heshmat Raisi

Heshmat Raisi

Iranian communist (born 1950)

Heshmat Raisi (Persian: حشمت رئیسی) was an Iranian communist who was a member of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.

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Raisi 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

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Iranian Socialist and Communist Parties, Organizations and Groups Archives, International Institute of Social History, p. 7, ARCH01857
  3. [3]
    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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