Noureddin Kianouri

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Noureddin Kianouri, 1980

Noureddin Kianouri (* 1915 Nūr ; † November 5, 1999 in the province of Māzandarān ) was an Iranian politician. Kianouri was a leading member of the Communist Tudeh Party and its general secretary from 1979 to 1984.

Life

Noureddin Kianouri was born in 1915 to a wealthy sheikh in Nour. His grandfather was Sheikh Fazlollah Nuri , who fought against the Constitutional Revolution in Iran and was executed for it in 1909. The Kianouri family was known for a certain fanaticism.

After graduating from high school, Kianouri went to Germany and studied civil engineering at RWTH Aachen University . After his return he taught at the University of Tehran . In the Tudeh party, Kianouri met Princess Maryam Firouz Farman Farmaian, the daughter of Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma , who came from one of the richest large landowning families. Around 1940 Noureddin and Maryam went to Moscow to get married there. After Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in August 1953 and the Tudeh party was banned, Kianouri and his wife fled to the GDR and lived there for almost 25 years in exile. Here he used the pseudonym Silvio Macetti . Kioanouri was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor for his involvement in the partly violent demonstrations against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the call for the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic in absentia.

After the Islamic Revolution , the couple returned to Iran and Kianouri became general secretary of the Tudeh party. In 1983 the Tudeh party was banned again. The reason given was the allegation of espionage for the Soviet Union. Kianouri and his wife were arrested and forced to make a public confession on Iranian television. After his release in the mid-1990s, Kianouri wrote an open letter detailing the tortures of his prison term and that of his wife.

Kianouri died on November 5th, 1999 in Māzandarān.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manucher Farmanfarmaian, Roxane Farmanfarmaian: Blood and Oil: a prince's memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah . Random House, 2005, p. 144.
  2. ↑ inaltenundneuenstaedten.wordpress.com: Silvio Macetti (NK) . 17th January 2017.
  3. ↑ Anyone who does not fight will be shot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1984, pp. 110-116 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Cameron Hume: The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How peacemaking changed . Indiana University Press (May 1, 1994), p. 62.
  5. ↑ Ali Gheissari, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr: Democracy in Iran: history and the quest for liberty . Oxford University Press, (2006), p. 96.
  6. ^ Maziar Behrooz: Rebels with a Cause (2000), p.129
  7. ↑ http://www.cpa.org.au/z-archive/g1999/980iran.html
personal data
SURNAME Kianouri, Noureddin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kianuri, Nour Al-din
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician, general secretary of the communist Tudeh party
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Just
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1999
Place of death Māzandarān Province