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2 unusual facts about Mohammad Mokhtari


Faraj Sarkohi

Sarkohi as a member of the “Commission of Eight” (the others were: Hushang Golshiri, Sima Kuban, Reza Baraheni, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mansour Kushan, Mohammad Mohammadali, Mohammad Khalili), took part in the origination of the text, and the collection of signatures.

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Mohammad Mokhtari, graduate of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, a renowned poet, novelist, and literary critic, and a leading member of the Iranian P.E.N. in 1980s and 1990s who was assassinated by elements from the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic in 1999 as a victim of what was later labeled in Iranian political jargon "chain murders"



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