Farajollah Mizani (), also known by pseudonym and pen name Javanshir (), was an Iranian communist and a senior Tudeh Party member.

Early life and education

Mizani was born in 1925 in Tabriz. He studied engineering at University of Tehran. Years later he was graduated with a PhD in Persian literature from a Soviet university.

Farajollah Mizani

Career

Mizani joined Tudeh Party in 1945, while he was a university student. In 1957, he fled to the Soviet Union and was exiled until 1979. While there, for some time he headed the party's clandestine radio named Peyk-e-Iran and studied at university. After Iranian Revolution, he returned to Iran and was a member of the party's central committee. In 1983, he was arrested by the Islamic Republic government and put on trial. He was among those who were killed during 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.

Farajollah Mizani

References

1925 births

1988 deaths

University of Tehran alumni

Second Secretaries of Tudeh Party of Iran

Central Committee of the Tudeh Party of Iran members

People from Tabriz

Iranian people convicted of spying for the Soviet Union

Iranian prisoners and detainees

20th-century executions by Iran

Iranian expatriates in the Soviet Union

Executed communists

Farajollah Mizani