Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei

Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei
Governor of East Azerbaijan Province
In office December 1979
In office February 1979 – June 1979
Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution
In office 15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
Constituency	East Azerbaijan Province
Majority	458,733 (51%)
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office 22 February 1961 – 9 May 1961
Constituency	Miandoab
Personal details
Born	Tehran
Died	Tehran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Radical Movement of Iran
Other political affiliations	Muslim People's Republic Party (1979)

Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei (Persian: رحمت‌الله مقدم مراغه‌ای) was an Iranian politician. A co-founder of the Iranian Writers' Association (IWA),[1] he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing the Shah.

Career

Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party.[2] He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.[3][4][5]

He worked as an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the cryptonym "SDProbe". According to C. Emery, he was a valuable asset for the agency due to his position as a governor and the connections he had among influential figures.[6]

References

1. Sreberny, Annabelle; Mohammadi, Ali (1994). Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780816622160.
2. Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce (2016), The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei, Routledge, p. 23, doi:10.4324/9781315748351, ISBN 978-1-315-74835-1
3. Stuart Auerbach (9 December 1979), "Iran to Form Tribunal To Air 'US Crimes'", The Washington Post, retrieved 1 November 2017
4. Eric Rouleau (Fall 1980), "Khomeini's Iran", Foreign Affairs, 59 (1), retrieved 1 November 2017
5. John Kifner (11 December 1979), "Khomeini Rebuffed by the Rival Ayatollah", The New York Times, retrieved 1 November 2017
6. Emery, Christian (2013). US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9781137329875.

External References/Links

• "Moghaddam-Maraghehie, Rahmatollah", Iranian Oral History Project collection, Harvard University
• Assembly of Experts for Constitution Profile

Party political offices
New title Party established	Secretary of the Radical Movement of Iran 1977–1980	Vacant Party abolished