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Ali Khavari
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ON March 19 2021, just three days before his 98th birthday, the first secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran for the previous 37 years, Ali Khavari, suffered a cardiac arrest and died at home in Berlin.
With his passing the international communist movement lost one of its most remarkable and long-serving leaders.
Comrade Khavari selflessly dedicated the whole of his adult life to the party, the international struggle and the cause of socialism.
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