Dariush Forouhar

Dariush Forouhar (1928-1998) was the leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran (Nation of Iran Party), a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran which he founded in 1951. He was born in Isfahan and had formerly been the Minister of Labor in the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was one of the founding members of the original Pan-Iranist Party of Iran with Mohsen Pezeshkpour. During the Pahlavi era, he had been very active in the anti-Shah nationalist movement and was a strong supporter of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.

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1928 - 1998 - Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran - Pan-Iranist - Iran - 1951 - Isfahan - Provisional Revolutionary Government - Mehdi Bazargan - 1979 - Pan-Iranist Party of Iran - Mohsen Pezeshkpour - Pahlavi - Mohammad Mossadegh

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He and his wife, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, were assassinated in their home in 1998. The murders, which are believed to have been politically motivated, remain unsolved. There has been speculation from supporters of the Forouhars (as well as from critics of the Islamic Republic) that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence was involved and ordered the killings http://www.iranian.com/FaribaAmini/2005/January/Seif/ http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/1999/November/Forouhar/ http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/iran/vevak-ops.htm http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/1999/01/990112-iran.htm http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2002/November/Forouhar/df.html.

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Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar - 1998 - Islamic Republic - Iranian Ministry of Intelligence

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They are survived by their son, Arash, and daughter, Parastou. Both are politically active and continue to raise awareness of the plight of political dissidents in Iran.

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Arash - Parastou

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Ms. Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer of the Forouhars' relatives quoting Parastou says: "All evidences show that my father was preparing himself to go to prison, because at the time of his slaying, his shoes had no laces, he did not wear his wrist watch and had his wallet emptied of its contents and papers except for some money."

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