Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei

Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
Bornc. 1936 or 1937 (age 87–88)[1]
NationalityIranian
Political partyFada'iyan-e Islam
FatherGholam Hossein Tabrizi

Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei (Persian: محمدمهدی عبدخدایی) is an Iranian conservative activist.

Son of Sheikh Gholamhosein Mojtahed-e Tabrizi,[2] he had a lower-middle-class bazaari background and was a minor attendant in a small hardware store. On 13 February 1952, when he was a 15-year-old member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam, he attempted to assassinate Hossein Fatemi who was delivering a speech at the grave of journalist Mohammad Masud who had been assassinated in 1948.[3] Fatemi survived the shooting.[1] Abdekhodaei was tried as a juvenile and imprisoned for twenty months.[2]

He revived the Fada'iyan-e Islam after the Iranian Revolution, though the organization is not a significant actor.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Guilain Denoeux (1993). Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. SUNY Press. p. 244. ISBN 9781438400846.
  2. ^ a b Sohrab Behdad (1997). "Islamic Utopia in pre-revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam". Middle Eastern Studies. 33 (1): 40–65. doi:10.1080/00263209708701141.
  3. ^ Hassan Mohammadi Nejad (1970). Elite-Counterelite Conflict and the Development of a Revolutionary Movement: The Case of Iranian National Front (PhD thesis). Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. p. 82. ISBN 9798657957457. ProQuest 302536657.
  4. ^ Rubin, B.M. (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. Vol. 2. Sharpe. p. 254. ISBN 9780765641380.
Party political offices
Vacant
Unknown
 Secretary-General of the Fada'iyan-e Islam
Unknown–present 		Incumbent


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