Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei
Bornc. 1936 or 1937 (age 86–87)[1]
NationalityIranian
Political partyFada'iyan-e Islam
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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. On 13 February 1952, when he was a 15-year-old member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam, he attempted to assassinate Hossein Fatemi who was delivering a speech at the grave of journalist Mohammad Masud who had been assassinated in 1948.[3] Fatemi 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.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Guilain Denoeux (1993). Urban Unrest in the Middle East: A Comparative Study of Informal Networks in Egypt, Iran, and Lebanon. SUNY Press. p. 244. ISBN 9781438400846.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. Hassan Mohammadi Nejad (1970). Elite-Counterelite Conflict and the Development of a Revolutionary Movement: The Case of Iranian National Front (PhD thesis). Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. p. 82. ISBN 9798657957457. ProQuest 302536657.
  4. Rubin, B.M. (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. Vol. 2. Sharpe. p. 254. ISBN 9780765641380.


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