28 Facts About Adib Boroumand

Adib Boroumand was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer.

Adib Boroumand was the head of the leadership council and chairman of the central council of the National Front of Iran.

Adib Boroumand is known as the national poet of Iran.

Adib Boroumand was born on 11 June 1924 in Gaz, Borkhar County, Isfahan, Persia.

Adib Boroumand received a BA in Judicial Law from the University of Tehran, and since then he had been lived in Tehran.

Adib Boroumand died on 13 March 2017 at the age of 92.

Abdol Ali Boroumand was born on 11 June 1924 in Gaz, Borkhar, Esfahan, Persia.

Adib Boroumand's father was a historian and a writer, while his mother was interested in education and culture.

Adib Boroumand began to attend school at the age of eight, and eventually earned his high school diploma, while studying literature.

Adib Boroumand began writing prose at the age of sixteen, eventually creating poems, and forming an interest in poems written by constitutionalists.

Adib Boroumand began his political career during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

Adib Boroumand wrote about Iranian nationalism, while criticizing the rule of Reza Shah and calling it a dictatorship.

Adib Boroumand criticized the invading forces by writing against capitalism and promoting nationalism and patriotism.

Adib Boroumand then began to write about what he believed to be a need for reform in Persia, acquainting himself with political parties and politicians in the nation.

Adib Boroumand then wrote his second book named Iran Opera in Tumult, a controversial piece of writing which complained about the bad conditions that many people believed were in place in the country at the time.

Adib Boroumand refused his appointment to the public prosecutor in the Ardabil Administration of Justice, instead of becoming an independent lawyer and eventually becoming a lawyer for the Iranian national bank.

Adib Boroumand became a strong supporter of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh's national movement and his nationalizing of the oil industry, along with many other Iranians at the time.

Adib Boroumand's poems were used as propaganda by Mosaddegh's government and supporters by being read out on radio broadcasts and passed out on paper pamphlets.

Adib Boroumand called Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule a "dictatorship", which landed him in prison.

Adib Boroumand became a central member of the National Front in 1960 and advocated a revolution.

Adib Boroumand participated in the Senna parliament sit-in against "lack of freedom", whose participants were jailed.

Adib Boroumand was then elected leader of the National Front after the Iranian Revolution, and had been the leader since 2000.

Adib Boroumand founded a "culture house" in his hometown, dedicated a version of the Quran to the National Library of Iran in 2008, and founded the "Adib Boroumand Art School".

Adib Boroumand's late wife, Farangis Amini, was a "religious beneficent" whom he married in 1947.

Similar to Adib Boroumand, she studied politics, literature, and culture, and assisted Adib Boroumand in his career until her death sometime in the mid-late 2000s.

Adib Boroumand had three children with her: a dentist named Jahanshah, a lawyer named Poorandokht, and a commercial company founder named Shahryar.

Adib Boroumand died on 13 March 2017 in his home in Tehran, when he was 92.

Adib Boroumand has "improved" many books that are not listed here.