Background
Tabari was born in 1917 in Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
Tabari was born in 1917 in Sari, Mazandaran, Iran.
Tabari was fluent in eight languages, he wrote and translated poetry and did research in linguistics. He returned to Iran in 1979 after the overthrow of the Shah, but was arrested in 1983 along with other leaders of the Tudeh Party. In May 1984 he confessed on television for spying for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and other crimes.
Disbelief about the sincerity of the Tabari"s conversion has been federal by the fact that after giving a confessional speech to other political prisoners at Evin prison he was asked by the prison warden "to deny outright the rumour that he had cast himself into the role of a 'Galileo,'" Tabari gave not a clear denial but a "long convoluted response;" and that after his confession he remained "not only incarcerated but also total isolation - even from his own family".
Tabari died on April 29, 1989 of kidney and heart failure, under house arrest.
