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  Fereidun Keshavarz 

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One of early founders of Iran's Tudeh Party, son of Mohammad Vakil-ot-tojjar Yazdi, he was born in Guilan, 1907. His early education was at Ahmadi School in Rasht. He got his diploma from Darol-Fonun, and went to Europe to study medicine in the University of Toulouse in France. He returned to Iran in 1934 as a pediatrician. He was the head of pediatrics in children and women's hospital (Amir Alam), and founded the first children's hospital in Iran. He was a professor of Tehran University for eleven years from 1938.

 

He was engaged in extensive activities of the Tudeh Party from 1941. Was elected a member of the provincial committee which acted as the central committee of the party in 1943. His mission was to hold the first congress of the party. He became a member of 14th term of Majlis from Anzali. In the first congress of Tudeh party, held in 1954 he became a member of the political and executive board of the central committee. He was appointed the minister of education in Qavam-os-Saltaneh's cabinet for 75 days.

 

Following an attempt on the Shah's life, and accusation of central committee of the party, he had to hide himself and immigrated to Russia with Reza Radmanesh through orders from executive board of central committee, 1939. He followed his education in high academies of Moscow. Due to his different viewpoints with Kambakhsh and Kianouri, he resigned from the party. The Tudeh organs called him a dismissed member, but he wrote that he had resigned and published his resignation.

 

Invited by Adul-Karim Qassem, he immigrated to Iraq, and became a lecturer at Iraq University and practiced medicine in there. He went to Algeria in 1962 and taught pediatrics for 15 years. After his departure from Russia, he visited the political leaders of China and Albania. He is the first figure who disclosed the secrets of Tudeh party. He intended to return to Iran in 1957, but due to his illness, it was cancelled and he continued to stay in Switzerland. Among his works, we may refer to the Principles of Training Children, I Accuse the Central Committee of Iran's Tudeh Party, and the Political Memoirs. The famous translator, Karim keshavarz is his brother. He died in 1985.

 




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