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Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei

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Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei
Governor of East Azerbaijan Province
In office
December 1979
In office
February 1979 – June 1979
Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution
In office
15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
ConstituencyEast Azerbaijan Province
Majority458,733 (51%)
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office
22 February 1961 – 9 May 1961
ConstituencyMiandoab
Personal details
BornTehran
DiedTehran
NationalityIranian
Political partyRadical Movement of Iran
Other political
affiliations
Muslim People's Republic Party (1979)

Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei (Persian: رحمت‌الله مقدم مراغه‌ای) was an Iranian politician. A co-founder of the Iranian Writers' Association (IWA),[1] he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing the Shah.

Career

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Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party.[2] He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.[3][4][5]

He worked as an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the cryptonym "SDProbe". According to C. Emery, he was a valuable asset for the agency due to his position as a governor and the connections he had among influential figures.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Sreberny, Annabelle; Mohammadi, Ali (1994). Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780816622160.
  2. ^ Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce (2016), The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei, Routledge, p. 23, doi:10.4324/9781315748351, ISBN 978-1-315-74835-1
  3. ^ Stuart Auerbach (9 December 1979), "Iran to Form Tribunal To Air 'US Crimes'", The Washington Post, retrieved 1 November 2017
  4. ^ Eric Rouleau (Fall 1980), "Khomeini's Iran", Foreign Affairs, 59 (1), retrieved 1 November 2017
  5. ^ John Kifner (11 December 1979), "Khomeini Rebuffed by the Rival Ayatollah", The New York Times, retrieved 1 November 2017
  6. ^ Emery, Christian (2013). US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9781137329875.
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Party political offices
New title
Party established
Secretary of the Radical Movement of Iran
1977–1980
Vacant
Party abolished