Tudeh Military Network Explained

Tudeh Military Network
War:Cold War
Active:1944–1957
1970s–1983
Ideology:Communism
Allegiance:Soviet Union
Founding Leader:Abdulsamad Kambakhsh
Leaders:Khosro Roozbeh
Area:Iran
Size:≈600 (1954)[1]
≈100 (1983)[2]
Partof:Tudeh Party of Iran
Allies:Azerbaijani Democratic Party
Democratic Party of Kurdistan[3]
Opponents:Second Bureau
British Network
Battles:1945 Khorasan revolt
1946 Azerbaijan revolt

The Officers' Organization (Persian: سازمان افسران)[4] or the Military Organization (Persian: سازمان نظامی)[4] of the Tudeh Party, also known as Tudeh Military Network, was an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Armed Forces using clandestine cell system method.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Daneshvar, Parviz. Revolution in Iran. Springer. 37. 2016. 978-1349140626.
  2. Book: Zabir. Sepehr. The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D). 2011. Routledge. 978-0-415-61785-7. Reprint.. 129.
  3. Book: Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. limited. Michael M. Gunter. 2010. Scarecrow Press. 9780810875074. 133.
  4. Behrooz. Maziar. Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran. August 2001. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33. 3. 363–82. 259456. 10.1017/S0020743801003026. 162990418 .