Lotfollah Meisami
Lotfollah Meysami | |
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| Born | 1942 (age 81–82)[1] |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
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| Allegiance | Iran |
| Service/ | Imperial Iranian Army |
| Years of service | 1964–1966 |
Lotfollah Meysami (Persian: لطفالله میثمی) is an Iranian Nationalist-Religious activist,[2] journalist and publisher.
He owns and publishes Cheshmandāz-e Irān (lit. 'Iran's Outlook'), a two-monthly magazine on politics and strategy.[3]
Political activity[edit]
Meisami was a student activist with the National Front and Freedom Movement of Iran while studying at the University of Tehran. After graduation, he secured a job and could make a stable future for himself, but he chose to join the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) to engage in the guerilla movement against the Pahlavy dynasty.[4] Meisami was blinded by a self-made bomb and also lost a hand.[5]
He was sentenced to imprisonment multiple times, from winter 1963 to summer 1964 at Qasr Prison for his association with the Freedom Movement of Iran, and between summer 1971 and 1973 at Evin Prison and 1974 to 1979 for his activities with the MEK.[6] He left the MEK following its ideological shift to Marxism.[5] He then founded an organization in 1976/77, namely People's Mujahedin Movement of Iran.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ervand Abrahamian (1989), Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, vol. 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 132, ISBN 9781850430773
- ^ "Prominent activists urge end to hunger strike". Radio Zamaneh. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ Leila Khabbazi-Oskouei (2016). "Orality in Persian Argumentative Discourse: A Case Study of Editorials". Iranian Studies. 49 (4): 677–691. doi:10.1080/00210862.2015.1026250. S2CID 162311824.
- ^ Cronin, Stephanie (2013). Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left. Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series. Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 978-1134328901.
- ^ a b Sadri, Mahmoud (2008). "Socialism, Islamic". In Kamrava, Mehran; Dorraj, Manochehr (eds.). Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. Vol. 2. Greenwood Press. p. 462. ISBN 978-0-313-34161-8.
- ^ Mahdi Fatehi (25 July 2015) [December 2012]. "Tortures started in 1963 in Ghasr Prison". Mehrnameh (27). Translated by Asghar Abutorabi: 111–112 – via Oral History website.
- ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.
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