The Fifty-Three
The Fifty-Three were 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 of the 53 died in jail such as Dr. Taqi Arani, and the rest were released in 1941.[3]
As a result of the similarity with the prosecution of the Old Bolsheviks in the Stalinist show trials in the Soviet Union in 1936-1938, some jested that Rezā Shāh was performing an imitation of Joseph Stalin.[2]
The fifty-three 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 Ashfar
- 16. Taqi Makinezhad
- 17. Mojtaba Sajjadi
- 18. Bozorg Alavi
- 19. Mehdi Rasai
- 20. Iraj Iskandari
- 21. Morteza Yazdi
- 22. Reza Radmanesh
- 23. Khalil Maleki
- 24. Morteza Sajjadi
- 25. Hossein sajjadi
- 26. Ali Shandramini
- 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. Nuraldin Alamutti
- 49. Reza Ibrahimzadeh
- 50. Khalel Enqelab
- 51. Fereydun Manou
- 52. Ana Turkoman
- 53. Razi Hakim-Allahi
Footnotes
- Daniel, Elton L. (2001). The History of Iran. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313307318.
- Abrahamian 1999, p. 48
- Alavi, Bozorg (2009). 53 Nafar (Fifty-three People) (in Persian). Negah. ISBN 9643510689.
References
- Abrahamian, Ervand (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21623-7. External link in
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