10 Facts About Ahmad Zirakzadeh

Ahmad Zirakzadeh was one of the founders of National Front of Iran, an Iranian party which was considered the backbone of Mohammad Mosaddegh's government.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh made history by defending the country against Operation Ajax.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh was born in 1907 to a Yazdi father and mother in a religious family in Tehran.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh's father, Mirza Zirak, was an Islamic cleric who traveled a lot and in one of his trips he visited a Bakhtiari khan who took Mirza Zirak with him to Tehran, where Ahmad was born.

In 1925 Ahmad Zirakzadeh went to Tehran to Dar ul-Funun high school.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh, Farivar, Shafagh, Moazemi and some others founded Iran party which was a nationalist party and considered as one of the most important columns of National Front of Iran and the backbone of Mohammed Mosaddeq's government and Ahmad Zirakzadeh became the secretary general of the party.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh was in Mosaddeq's house in 1953 coup -which was triggered by CIA - and broke his leg while he tried to escape there.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh was arrested again in 1957 because Shah who was in power again after the 1953 coup suspected that he was working against the government.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh went to the United States in 1980 one year after the Islamic revolution and lived there for many years before his return to Iran.

Ahmad Zirakzadeh died in 1993 at the age of 86 in Tehran and is buried in Beheshte Zahra.