Taleb Taheri was born on December 19, 1967, to a blacksmith father and homemaker mother in Tehran. Started school at the age of 7, he was a diligent student. He loved Quran and recited it with a beautiful voice.
He joined the revolutionary forces fighting the Western-backed Pahlavi regime along with his brothers. He distributed the written statements of Imam Khomeini at night and took part in the anti-Shah rallies.
Following the Islamic Revolution, Taleb decided to continue his studies, but it didn’t take long when the Iraqi Ba’ath regime invaded Iran’s southern cities. So, he volunteered to defend his country against the invading enemy. Taleb furthered his studies on the battlefield.
Having suffered back injuries during Operation Fat’holmobin, Taleb returned home for medical care. Intended to return to the war fronts as soon as he was recovered, he was kidnapped by MEK terrorists on Sunday, August 8, 1982.
Following the rages on MEK’s safe houses in late April 1982, the group members decided to seek revenge on the Iranian people. So, they brutally tortured Taleb. They tied him up to the chair and hit him with wire cables to take his friends’ addresses, but Taleb, being aware of their evil purposes, resisted. This led to more tortures burning him with a hot iron. They proceeded to stab him and pull his teeth out with metal pliers. They cut off his ear and nose and gouged out his left eye while he was conscious. Deeply shocked by his resistance, MKO members peeled off the 17-year-old Taleb’s scalp, injected him with cyanide, and left his half-dead body in the deserts near Tehran.
Members of the Islamic Revolution Committee found Taleb’s body on August 12, 1982. His father was called to identify the dead body, but he couldn’t due to the fact that the body was in a totally unidentifiable condition. They finally identified Taleb by the shrapnel which was lodged in his back.
Gathering a pile of documents of MKO’s tortures on his son, Taleb Taheri's father went to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and provided them with the documents. However, leaders of the MKO terrorist group were not put on trial and are still moving freely in western countries.