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.
Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei | |
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| Governor of East Azerbaijan Province | |
| In office December 1979 | |
| In office February 1979 – June 1979 | |
| Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution | |
| In office 15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979 | |
| Constituency | East Azerbaijan Province |
| Majority | 458,733 (51%) |
| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 22 February 1961 – 9 May 1961 | |
| Constituency | Miandoab |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tehran |
| Died | Tehran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Radical Movement of Iran |
| Other political affiliations | Muslim People's Republic Party (1979) |
Career edit
Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party.[2] He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.[3][4][5]
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.[6]
References edit
- ^ Sreberny, Annabelle; Mohammadi, Ali (1994). Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780816622160.
- ^ Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce (2016), The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei, Routledge, p. 23, doi:10.4324/9781315748351, ISBN 978-1-315-74835-1
- ^ Stuart Auerbach (9 December 1979), "Iran to Form Tribunal To Air 'US Crimes'", The Washington Post, retrieved 1 November 2017
- ^ Eric Rouleau (Fall 1980), "Khomeini's Iran", Foreign Affairs, retrieved 1 November 2017
- ^ John Kifner (11 December 1979), "Khomeini Rebuffed by the Rival Ayatollah", The New York Times, retrieved 1 November 2017
- ^ Emery, Christian (2013). US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9781137329875.
External References/Links edit
- "Moghaddam-Maraghehie, Rahmatollah", Iranian Oral History Project collection, Harvard University
- Assembly of Experts for Constitution Profile
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