Abolfazl Qassemi Explained

Abolfazl Qassemi
Birth Place:	Dargaz, Iran
Nationality:	Iranian
Death Place:	Tehran, Iran
Order1:	Member-elect of the Iranian Parliament
Term1:	Credentials rejected in 1980^[1]
Constituency1:	Dargaz
Party:	Iran Party (1946–1993) Motherland Party (before 1946)
Otherparty:	National Front

Abolfazl Qassemi (Persian: ابوالفضل قاسمی) was an Iranian politician affiliated with the National Front, and once head librarian of University of Tehran.

Amidst Iranian Revolution, Qassemi succeeded Shapour Bakhtiar as the leader of Iran Party^[2] and was elected to the Parliament in 1980 legislative election. However, he was denied to take his seat on the grounds that he was a member of the SAVAK, while he denied the accusation.^[3] In November 1981, Islamic Revolutionary Court convicted Qassemi of collaboration with 1980 coup d'état attempt and sentenced him to life imprisonment.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Baktiari. Bahman. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. 1996. 69. 978-0-8130-1461-6.
2. Web site: Old Activists Hide Away in Mullah's Iran. 17 June 1980. 25 January 2017. William. Branigin. The Washington Post.
3. Web site: Sentence Iranian dissident to life in prison. 12 November 1981. 25 January 2017. Sajid. Rizvi. United Press International.
4. Web site: A Struggle to Revive Iran's Nationalists. 17 June 1980. 25 January 2017. William. Branigin. The Washington Post.