1931 - 1981
Iranian political activist.
Born in Tehran, Mostafa Chamran was an engineer by training, having earned a Ph.D. in electromechanics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962. While studying in the United States, he cofounded, with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and Ibrahim Yazdi, the Muslim Students Association, which opposed the shah. He entered political life during the days of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry and the premiership of Mohammad Mossadegh (1951 - 1953) as a member of the National Resistance Movement, the more religiously inclined branch of Mossadegh's National Front. In the 1970s he moved to Lebanon and joined the AMAL group led by the Shiʿite cleric Imam Musa Sadr. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Chamran was assistant to the prime minister and a member of parliament, until his mysterious death on the frontline during the war between Iran and Iraq. In addition to being a political activist, Chamran was also the author of several collections of mystical poetry.
— NEGUIN YAVARI
