Seyyed Ali Hesari was born in Qazvin, capital of the Province of Qazvin on February 23, 1963. His father was a driver assistance and his mother was householder. He had studied up to second grade middle school. Then he joined the Revolutionary Guards.
On Thursday, September 17, 1981 Seyyed Ali was assassinated by a terrorist named Ibrahim Nademi, who had assassinated a teacher named Ghodratollah Chegini 14 days earlier. Hesari was killed as a result of gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
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Hojatoleslam Mohammad Chavoshi was born in Abyaneh, a village in Natanz County, Isfahan Province on March 21, 1949. He was five years old when with his family moved to Tehran. Due to the family’s financial problems, Mohammad was forced to go to the night school for initial education.
He entered Islamic seminary in 1966 and learned Islamic science before outstanding professors such as Ayatollah Mojtahidi and Ayatollah Imami Kashani.
Mohammad used to heed ethics along with acquiring science
Munira Saif was born on September 24, 1959 in a religious family in the city Nahavand in Hamadan Province. Her father was a member of IRGC and her mother was a housewife. As the second child of the family, Munira had to drop out of school due to the poor economic conditions of his family during the reign of Pahlavi regime. She was a kind and cheerful girl who was very popular because of her approachable character.
At the peak of the protests and rallies of the people of Iran against the
Mir Abraham Tara was born in August 1959 within a religious family in the city of Kordkoy, Golestan Province. His parents later moved to Tehran. While still in the second grade, Abraham lost his father and thus he had to work besides going to school.
As a child, he was kind and generous and often helped the people who struggled with poverty. Abraham was about 18 when he began his revolutionary and anti- regime activities, which lasted continuously until the overthrow of Pahlavi regime. After
Born Rostam Azarbad in Yazd to a Zoroastrian family on April 22, 1965, his father was a baker before the Islamic Revolution and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution he was employed in a textile mill. Rostam, a gentle and obedient boy, was the second child of the family. He was always trying to offer a lending hand to his brothers and sisters and he was constantly appraised by his teachers in school. He was a kind hearted boy helping the down and outs. He also devoted his leisure time to help his
Mohammad Bagher Hosseini Lavasani was born in a religious family in Tehran on February 12, 1944 and went to school until he got his Diploma from Darolfonoon high school. Along with learning the new science, he managed to acquire Islamic thoughts and soon became able to master Arabic language and principles of the jurisprudence, theology and Islamic philosophy and Islamic education. In 1962 Mohammad Bagher entered the faculty of medicine.
As far as his revolutionary activities, he was involved
Gholamhossein Haqqani was born in the holy city of Qom on March 24, 1941 into a religious family. His father, Hojjatol’eslam Sheikh Mohammad Haqqani, was a reputable religious scholar. They moved to Tehran while Gholamhossein was a young boy. He started his modern as well as Islamic education in Tehran and later returned to Qom, where he continued his Islamic studies under great scholars such as Imam Khomeini, Ayatollah Golpayegani and Ayatollah Morteza Haeri Yazdi. He could manage to get
Zolfa Khezri was born on September 21, 1971 in a Shafi'i family in the city of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province. Her father was a farmer and her mother was a housewife. Zolfa had outstanding qualities as a child that distinguished her from the girls of her age. Cleverness and intelligence were the features that allowed her to do and learn things faster than her peers.
Zolfa was a very diligent and active student during the school years so that she was usually appointed as the top student
Ali Hashemi Sanjani was born on March 22, 1911 in Sanjan, a village close to Arak, the capital of Iran’s Markazi province into a religious family. His father, Mahmoud, was a revered cleric in the region and his mother was a pious descendent of Imam Ali (AS), the first Shiite Imam.
Ali attended a traditional school (Maktab) in his village before he moved to Arak to study at Hawza. Proving himself as a brilliant student, he moved to Qom to begin his advanced Hawza studies by attending courses by
Javad Sarafraz was born on October 7, 1953 into a religious family. His father, Hojjat al-Islam Sheikh Abolfazl Sarafraz, was a well-known Islamic preacher in Tehran.
After getting a high school diploma in mathematics and doing his military service, he moved to England to continue his education. Following an invitation by Iranian students based in India, he left Leeds for India to study sociology.
As soon as he arrived in Bangalore, India, he started holding religious meetings in secret
Dariush Chappari was born on September 15, 1949 in a village near Sanandaj City. His father was a postman and a follower of Shafi'i school and his mother was a housewife. He left school when he was a fourth grader and spent a few years later in religious schools. Dariush had to leave school due to economic problems and get into the work market. A fan of driving since childhood, he first began his work as a chauffeur, but after a while he found a job in a construction company.
In 1973, he
Hojjat-al-Islam Abdolvahhab Qassemi was born into a religious family on September 23, 1933 in Lafourak village, close to Savadkooh in the northern Mazandaran province. He started his Islamic education under his uncle at 7 and then travelled to Babol, Tehran and finally Mashhad to continue his Islamic education. Abdolvahhab had a great talent in learning different subjects of Islamic education and managed to master Fiqh, Usul, Hadith, Qur’an commentary, logic and philosophy. He also managed to
Ali-Asghar Aqazamani was born in March 21, 1952 in Naraq village, close to Mahallat in Markazi province into a hard-working religious family. He entered primary school at 6, before moving to Tehran along with his family at 9. Much admired for his brilliance and good temper during school years, Aqazamani managed to get a BA degree in accounting in 1974.
During school years, he had a great interest in reading Islamic books as well as attending Islamic sessions held in mosques and elsewhere. He
Martyr Khosro Qadyani was born in 1961 in a village near the city of Qazvin, west of Tehran. He spent 7 years in his hometown and then migrated to Tehran and kept on his studies in this city. As a young brave student, Khosro always attended the religious councils and meetings.
During the outbreak of the Islamic revolution in Iran, he joined the revolutionary people and helped in the distribution of messages conveying the late Imam Khomeini’s statements among the people. After the victory of
Seyed Javad Alavi-Moghaddam was born and grew up in a religious Muslim family in the northeastern city of Sabzevar in 1957. There he went to school until he finished the elementary and high school. In 1976 Sayyed Javad was accepted in the entrance exam of Mashhad University in the field of Chemistry and became an active student in any Islamic movement from the very beginning days of university.
During the days of the Islamic Revolution in its peak, he spent all his time in distributing books
Gholam-Ali Haji Hashemi was born in 1930 in the Gharieh Kan village in a religious family of farmers.
After finishing primary school, he had to abandon schools due to the economic problems of his family and find a job. He chose tailoring as a profession until he got married in 1956. After marriage, he moved to Tehran and fathered seven children in the years to come.
In the midst of the Islamic Revolution, Gholam-Ali along with other Iranians answered the call of their leader and rallied
Peymaneh Ebrahimzadeh was born in 1976 in the city of Orumiyeh. Her father was a farmer and her mother a housewife. Because of the special circumstances governing her city during the Iran-Iraqi War, she was unable to continue her studies, thereby dropped out of school after finishing middle school.
In those days, she often attended Quran teaching classes and sometimes helped her mother with household chores. Grown up in a religious family, she was very fastidious about performing her religious
Hassan Binabaji was born in 1961 in Binabaj village in Khorasan Province. His father, laborer, and his mother, a housewife, made lots of vows, and God favored them with Hassan. Soon after his birth, Binabajis relocated to Mashhad and settled in this city. Feeling a deep love for Hassan, his parents tried to meet all his demands. However, Hassan was so considerate, avoiding causing inconvenience to them. During his elementary school, Hassan worked besides his school to lift weight off his
Seyed Ghasem Hosseini was born on August 27, 1954, in Doughabad Village in Khorasan Province. His father was a farmer and his mother a housewife and a helping hand in her husband’s agricultural affairs. Seyed Ghasem and his brother moved to a rented house in Tehran to further their studies in the capital.
They were working hard in a factory during the day and studied at a night school. He was a firm believer in defending the rights of the oppressed and repeatedly stood up against the injustice
Jamshid Danaeifar was born on December 28, 1987 in the city of Hamoun in Sistan and Balouchestan Province in a family of 11 people. His father was an employee of Zabol University of Medical Sciences and his mother was a housewife. Jamshid was the sixth child of the family. As a kind and polite boy, he was known for his respect of the elders, especially his parents. Growing up in a religious family, he was very careful about saying his prayers on time under any condition. Also, showing respect