Ali Khavari
THE Tudeh Party of Iran has paid tribute to a “tireless militant” following the death of its longstanding leader Ali Khavari, aged 97.
Khavari “never gave up his duty as a party soldier” in nearly eight decades of revolutionary activity, it said.
The veteran communist, who joined the Tudeh party in 1941, began a long exile from Iran before the 1953 coup orchestrated by the US and Britain, when the elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown and and a royal dictatorship of shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi installed.
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