The Fifty-Three

The Fifty-Three was a group of 53 Iranians arrested for involvement in communist political activities in 1937[1] and brought to trial in November 1938 in the most sensational of the political trials held during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi.[2] Some, such as Taqi Arani, died in jail—the rest were released in 1941.[3]


The 53 Iranians arrested were:

  1. Taqi Arani
  2. Abdul-Samad Kambakhsh
  3. Mohammad Bahrami
  4. Mohammad Shureshyan
  5. Ali Sadeqpour
  6. Mohammad Boqrati
  7. Ziya Alamutti
  8. Mohammad Pazhuh
  9. Mohammad Farjami
  10. Abbas Azeri
  11. Nasratallah Ezazi
  12. Anvar Khamei
  13. Nosrat-ollah Jahanshahlou
  14. Emad Alamutti
  15. Akbar Afshar
  16. Taqi Makinezhad
  17. Mojtaba Sajjadi
  18. Bozorg Alavi
  19. Mehdi Rasai
  20. Iraj Eskandari
  21. Morteza Yazdi
  22. Reza Radmanesh
  23. Khalil Maleki
  24. Morteza Sajjadi
  25. Hossein Sajjadi
  26. Akbar Schandermani
  27. Mohammad Qodreh
  28. Taqi Shahin
  29. Morteza Razavi
  30. Seyfollah Sayyah
  31. Alinqali Hokmi
  32. Ezatollah Etiqechi
  33. Vali Khajavi
  34. Rahim Alamutti
  35. Shayban Zamani
  36. Abdul-Qassem Ashtari
  37. Hossein Tarbiyat
  38. Fazollah Garkani
  39. Yousef Soqfi
  40. Jalal Naini
  41. Rajbali Nasimi
  42. Bahman Shomali
  43. Mehdi Laleh
  44. Ehsan Tabari
  45. Abbas Naraqi
  46. Mehdi Daneshvar
  47. Hassan Habibi
  48. Noureddin Alamouti
  49. Reza Ibrahimzadeh
  50. Khalel Enqelab
  51. Fereydun Manou
  52. Ana Turkoman
  53. Razi Hakim-Allahi

Footnotes

  1. ^ Daniel, Elton L. (2001). The History of Iran. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313307318.
  2. ^ Abrahamian 1999, p. 48
  3. ^ Alavi, Bozorg (2009). 53 Nafar (Fifty-three People) (in Persian). Negah. ISBN 978-9643510688.

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