Education
Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
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Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998. In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned. On November 18, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner"s office six days later on November 24, 1998.
The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.