| Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei | |
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| 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 | |
| Constituency | East Azerbaijan Province |
| Majority | 458,733 (51%) |
| Member of Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 22 February 1961 – 9 May 1961 | |
| Constituency | Miandoab |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tehran |
| Died | Tehran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Radical 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), he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing the Shah.
Career
Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party. He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.
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.
References
- Sreberny, Annabelle; Mohammadi, Ali (1994). Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution. University of Minnesota Press. p. 99. ISBN 9780816622160.
- Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce (2016), The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei, Routledge, p. 23, doi:10.4324/9781315748351, ISBN 978-1-315-74835-1
- Stuart Auerbach (9 December 1979), "Iran to Form Tribunal To Air 'US Crimes'", The Washington Post, retrieved 1 November 2017
- Eric Rouleau (Fall 1980), "Khomeini's Iran", Foreign Affairs, 59 (1), retrieved 1 November 2017
- John Kifner (11 December 1979), "Khomeini Rebuffed by the Rival Ayatollah", The New York Times, retrieved 1 November 2017
- Emery, Christian (2013). US Foreign Policy and the Iranian Revolution: The Cold War Dynamics of Engagement and Strategic Alliance. Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9781137329875.
External References/Links
- "Moghaddam-Maraghehie, Rahmatollah", Iranian Oral History Project collection, Harvard University
- Assembly of Experts for Constitution Profile
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