Ebrahim Yazdi

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Ebrahim Yazdi (1979)
Ebrahim Yazdi at Sharif University of Technology , 2007

Ebrahim Yazdi (born September 26, 1931 in Qazvin , Iran , † August 27, 2017 in Izmir , Turkey . Persian ابراهیم یزدی) was an Iranian politician . Since 1995 he has been general secretary of the Iranian Freedom Movement , which in some camps of the Iranian government is regarded as an "illegal party" and was banned in 2002.

Yazdi studied pharmacology at the University of Tehran . After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, he served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister in the transitional government of Mehdi Bāzargān until his resignation in the wake of the hostage-taking of Tehran in 1979.

Life

After the military coup of 1953, as a result of which the government of Mohammad Mossadegh was ousted, Yazdi joined the "National Resistance Movement of Iran"; he was active in this underground organization until 1960. The movement turned against the Shah Reza Pahlavi . Yazdi traveled to the United States in 1960 to continue his education there; there, too, he continued to be politically active against the Shah. Together with Mostafa Tschamran , Ali Schariati , and Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, he became a founding member of the freedom movement in 1961.

Ebrahim Yazdi framed by Yadollah Sahabi and Mehdi Bāzargān

His activities prevented him from returning to Iran, and so he remained in the United States until the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In 1975, Yazdi was sentenced in absentia to ten years in prison by an Iranian military tribunal, with the Arrest him on return to Iran.

Yazdi was the first foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the interim government of Bāzargān from April to November 1979 .

In December 1997, Yazdi was arrested on unknown charges and detained in Evin Prison in Tehran. After his release he was banned from leaving the country for many years; He was also regularly called before the Islamic Revolutionary Court to answer questions, with the lawyer and later Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi at his side.

According to the Iranian Freedom Movement website, Yazdi was arrested on June 17, 2009 , amid the protests following the Iranian presidential election , while he was undergoing medical tests in a Tehran hospital. He was released on June 22nd to return to the hospital for a medical procedure. After being temporarily detained in December 2009, Yazdi was arrested again on October 1, 2010 while attending an "illegal Friday prayer " in Isfahan , and was not released until April 2011.

Yazdi died of pancreatic cancer in August 2017 in Izmir , where he was receiving treatment .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ebrahim yazdi dies
  2. ↑ Iran elections: mass arrests and campus raids as regime hits back The Guardian , June 17, 2009
  3. ↑ Leading opposition figures arrested again ( memento from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de , October 2, 2010
  4. ↑ Kenneth Katzman: Iran: US Concerns and Policy Responses (CRS Report for US Congress) In: Congressional Research Service . June 17, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Iranian Dissident, Former Foreign Minister Yazdi Dies At 86 . Retrieved August 30, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Yazdi, Ebrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ابراهیم یزدی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Qazvin , Iran
DATE OF DEATH 27th August 2017
Place of death Izmir , Turkey