Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
Appearance
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Born | c. 1936 or 1937 (age 87–88)[1] |
Nationality | Iranian |
Political party | Fada'iyan-e Islam |
Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei (Persian: محمدمهدی عبدخدایی) is an Iranian conservative activist.
Son of Sheikh Gholamhosein Mojtahed-e Tabrizi,[2] he had a lower-middle-class bazaari background and was a minor attendant in a small hardware store. In 1952, when he was a 15-year-old member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam, he attempted to assassinate FM Hossein Fatemi who survived the shooting.[1] Abdekhodaei was tried as a juvenile and imprisoned for twenty months.[2]
He revived the Fada'iyan-e Islam after the Iranian Revolution, though the organization is not a significant actor.[3]
References
- ^ a b Denoeux, Guilain (1993). Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East. SUNY Press. p. 244. ISBN 9781438400846.
- ^ a b Sohrab Behdad (1997). "Islamic Utopia in pre‐revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian‐e Eslam". Middle Eastern Studies. 33 (1): 40–65. doi:10.1080/00263209708701141.
- ^ Rubin, B.M. (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. Vol. 2. Sharpe. p. 254. ISBN 9780765641380.