Heshmat Raisi Explained

Heshmat Raisi
Party:OIPFG
Birth Name:Heshmatollah Raisi
Birth Place:Iran
Nationality:Iranian

Heshmat Raisi (Persian: حشمت رئیسی) was an Iranian communist who was a member of the Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.

Career

Raisi was a guerilla fighting against Pahlavi dynasty, and he was arrested and imprisoned in the 1970s. After the Iranian Revolution, he was released from prison and became an alternate member in the central committee of the OIPFG.[1] In 1979, he unsuccessfully ran for an Assembly of Experts for Constitution seat from Tehran constituency, garnering only 90,641 votes.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Vahabzadeh. Peyman. Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and the Fadai Period of National Liberation In Iran, 1971–1979. 2010. Syracuse University Press. 67. 9780815651475.