Lotfollah Meisami

Lotfollah Meysami (Persian: لطف‌الله میثمی‎) is an Iranian Nationalist-Religious activist,[2] journalist and publisher.

Lotfollah Meysami
Born1942 (age 77–78)[1]
Isfahan, Iran[1]
NationalityIranian
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
Political party
Military career
AllegianceIran
Service/branchImperial Iranian Army
Years of service1964–1966

He owns and publishes Cheshmandāz-e Irān (lit. 'Iran's Outlook'), a two-monthly magazine on politics and strategy.[3]

Political activity

Meisami was a student activist with the National Front and Freedom Movement of Iran while studying at the University of Tehran. After graduation, he secured a job and could make a stable future for himself, but he chose to join the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) to engage in the guerilla movement against the Pahlavy dynasty.[4] Meisami was blinded by a self-made bomb and also lost a hand.[5]

He was sentenced to imprisonment multiple times, from winter 1963 to summer 1964 at Qasr Prison for his association with the Freedom Movement of Iran, and between summer 1971 and 1973 at Evin Prison and 1974 to 1979 for his activities with the MEK.[6] He left the MEK following its ideological shift to Marxism.[5] He then founded an organization in 1976/77, namely 'People's Mujahedin Movement of Iran'.[7]

gollark: Computerized voting: because computer systems never have big security problems, and trusting elections to closed source voting machines is totally fine!
gollark: I'm not sure why the presidential candidates' age needs to be brought into this when they all seem bad in other ways anyway.
gollark: That would make sense.
gollark: I'm not hip and with it (yo) when it comes to all these... generation name things? What's a "doomer"?
gollark: I do generally prefer flying to cars for reasonably long distances, but the whole "security" thing at airports really does a great job at making me reevaluate that. And is not actually improving security at all.

References
  1. Ervand Abrahamian (1989), Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin, Society and culture in the modern Middle East, 3, I.B.Tauris, p. 132, ISBN 9781850430773
  2. "Prominent activists urge end to hunger strike". Radio Zamaneh. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  3. Leila Khabbazi-Oskouei (2016). "Orality in Persian Argumentative Discourse: A Case Study of Editorials". Iranian Studies. 49 (4): 677–691. doi:10.1080/00210862.2015.1026250.
  4. Cronin, Stephanie (2013). Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left. Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series. Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 978-1134328901.
  5. Sadri, Mahmoud (2008). "Socialism, Islamic". In Kamrava, Mehran; Dorraj, Manochehr (eds.). Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. 2. Greenwood Press. p. 462. ISBN 978-0-313-34161-8.
  6. Mahdi Fatehi (25 July 2015) [December 2012]. Translated by Asghar Abutorabi. "Tortures started in 1963 in Ghasr Prison". Mehrnameh (27): 111–112 – via Oral History website.
  7. Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. p. 345. ISBN 9780815654322.


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