Background
Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Sahabi was born on 9 May 1930 in Tehran, Iran. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.
He studied mechanical engineering at the Faculty of Engineering Tehran University.
He was famous for his political-economical social analysis, and also for the many years of imprisonment in both the pre-revolution and post-revolution eras. He was leader of the Nationalist-Religious Coalition from 2003 until his death in 2011. Mehdi Bazargan, then Prime Minister of Iran, named Sahabi as Head of National Budget Center.
In later years Sahabi was managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda (The Iran of Tomorrow), which was banned by the Islamic government, and participated in the 2000 "Iran After the Elections" Conference held in Berlin, for which he was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment.
He was well known as the leader of the Iran"s Nationalist-Religious political alliance. Sahabi spent a total of 15 years in prison both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Haleh Sahabi reportedly collapsed after trying to stop authorities from removing her father"s body.
According to Haleh"s uncle, the woman died due to "the beating given to her, (which) were severe". Fars news agency denied there had been any clash with police and accused the opposition movement of seeking to politicise the incident. Hoda Saber.
He was appointed as a member of Council of Islamic Revolution by Ruhollah Khomeini on 12 February 1979. He was elected as a member of Parliament in election of 1980. Mourners reportedly arrested at the funeral include Habibollah Peyman, a member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, political activist Hamid Ahrari, and Hamed Montazeri, the grandson of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.