Majid Sharif-Vaghefi

One of the Mujahedin e Khalgh group's leaders who was killed by his friends because of his insistence on keeping Islamic ideology while his friends decided to accept Marxism instead.

He was born in Isfahan, 1949, in a religious family. He was one of the best student in the school and thus his teachers encouraged him to study more ang go to university. He continued his study on Electrical Engineering in Aryamehr Universty which its name have been changed to Sharif University due to his memorial after Islamic revolution. After gratuating he began to work in a local office, while now he was member of a secret group called Mujahedin e Khalgh (People's Mujahedin of Iran).

In 1971 when the group were tring to achieve some guns, to be used in fight with Shah, SAVAK had been informed about them and many of members arrested. Majid was one of those who didn't arrested and thus secretly tried to link others to group again. While regime killed many of leaders, Organization composed again but about a year later when Majid was one of leaders, Others decided to change the ideology from Islam to Marxism. Majid refused and thus deposed from Central Group (Group of leaders). In 1975 the leaders informed by his Marxist and spy wife, Leyla Zomorrodian, that he was tring to establish a new branch (Islamic Branch) in organization and to collect members who remain in Islamic ideology. They called him one day for an appointment and killed him in an alley in Tehran. Then burned his body, thus nobody could identify him, but SAVAK had been informed and arrested some of those who engaged in his murder. After revolution police arrested the main issuer of murder Taghi Shahram, were one of Mujahedin's leaders and killed many after Majid, only for their beliefs. Shahram was executed in 1981.