Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei | |
Birth Place: | Tehran |
Death Place: | Tehran |
Office1: | Governor of East Azerbaijan Province |
Term1: | December 1979 |
Term Start2: | February 1979 |
Term End2: | June 1979 |
Office3: | Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution |
Term Start3: | 15 August 1979 |
Term End3: | 15 November 1979 |
Constituency3: | East Azerbaijan Province |
Majority3: | 458,733 (51%) |
Office4: | Member of Parliament of Iran |
Term Start4: | 22 February 1961 |
Term End4: | 9 May 1961 |
Constituency4: | Miandoab |
Party: | Radical Movement of Iran |
Otherparty: | Muslim People's Republic Party (1979) |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei (Persian: رحمتالله مقدم مراغهای) was an Iranian politician. A co-founder of the Iranian Writers' Association (IWA),[1] he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing the Shah.
Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party. He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.
He worked as an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the cryptonym "SDProbe". According to C. Emery, he was a valuable asset for the agency due to his position as a governor and the connections he had among influential figures.[2]