1. Ezzatollah Sahabi was an Iranian politician and journalist.
13 Facts About Ezzatollah Sahabi
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Ezzatollah Sahabi was a parliament member from 1980 to 1984.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi's father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi studied mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Tehran University.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi was appointed as a member of Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini on 12 February 1979.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980.
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In later years Ezzatollah Sahabi was managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda, which was banned by the Islamic government, and participated in the 2000 'Iran After the Elections' Conference held in Berlin, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi was well known as the leader of the Iran's Nationalist-Religious political alliance.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi was married to Zarrindokht Ataei, whose maternal uncle was Mehdi Bazargan.
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On 1 May 2011, Ezzatollah Sahabi went into a coma after a stroke.
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Ezzatollah Sahabi's funeral was reportedly marred by the removal of his body by plain clothes authorities, the death of his daughter, Haleh Ezzatollah Sahabi, from cardiac arrest after being beaten by the plain clothes for holding a photograph of her father.
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Haleh Ezzatollah Sahabi reportedly collapsed after trying to stop authorities from removing her father's body.