Английская Википедия:Aziz Daneshrad

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Aziz Daneshrad (Шаблон:Lang-fa; 1920–1991)[1] also known as Gabay (Шаблон:Lang-fa)[2] and Kiyai (Шаблон:Lang-fa)[1] was an Iranian Jewish political activist who represented Jews in the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution. His was a proponent of left-wing politics while also advocating ethnoreligious identity.[3]

Early life and education

Aziz Daneshrad-Kiyai was born in 1920 in Golpayegan, Isfahan Province.[1] His father was a rabbi and a merchant in bazaar.[1] He obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran and then became a civil servant.[1]

Political career

During the rule of Pahlavi dynasty, Daneshrad was a dissident associated with the Tudeh Party of Iran and he was imprisoned in the 1960s and the 1970s.[3][4]

He co-founded the Association of Jewish Iranian Intellectuals (Jame‘eh-ye rowshanfekran-e kalimi-ye Iran; abbreviated AJII) in 1978, a revolutionary organization that tried to challenge the old guard leadership of the Jewish community which had royalist and Zionist orientations.[3]

After the Iranian Revolution, he took charge as the interim chairman of the Tehran Jewish Association because the previous officeholder Habib Elghanian was executed.[2] Daneshrad was elected to the Assembly for the Final Review of the Constitution shortly after.[1] There he was one of the four members who represented religious minorities[5] and he is likely to have sided with opposition to inclusion of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists in the constitution.[6]

Personal life

Daneshrad married his paternal cousin, Aghdas, in 1944. The couple had three sons and two daughters.[2]

Accolades

National

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