Abdolsamad Kambakhsh

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Abdolsamad Kambakhsh
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office
6 March 1944 – 12 March 1946
ConstituencyQazvin
Personal details
Born
Abdolsamad Adle Qajar

1902 or 1903
Air Force
Years of service1932–1937
RankSecond lieutenant

Abdolsamad Kambakhsh (

communist political activist. In early 1925, he married feminist activist Dr. Akhtar Kianouri (Persian: اختر کیانوری). Noureddin Kianouri
, the younger brother of Dr. Akhtar Kianouri, grew up in their house.

Early years

He grew up in his birthplace,

Moscow University,[4] he studied aeronautics between 1928 and 1932.[5]

He was the first and only Iranian member of Communist International (Comintern). He represented Tudeh in the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

According to the

Tudeh Party and Azerbaijan Movement. For Russia, he was the Iranian represent in Communist International
(Comintern) and therefore an ally. That made him the "Voice of Russia" for Iranians.

Political life

Kambakhshwas an influential member of the Tudeh Party of Iran and belonged to the party's hardline faction.[7] He was also one of the few “group of fifty-three” with experience in the youth section of the Communist party, where he helped organizing the local educational society. At the time of his arrest in 1937, Kabakhsh was an instructor in engineering at the military academy and the manager of the army mechanics school outside Tehran. The contacts he made in these years, proved highly useful later when the Tudeh decided to form cells within the military.[8][9]

In the introduction of Kambakhsh's book the Workers’ and Communist Movement in Iran, Ehsan Tabari named him the only Iranian who was trusted by Joseph Stalin and the Soviets. Kambakhsh was known for his close connections to the Soviet intelligence agencies, including the OGPU, the NKVD and the KGB.[10]

Scholar Maziar Behrooz argues that "Kambakhsh was not a theorist but a party functionary with strong personal connections to the Soviets".[11]

According to written statements of

Khosro Rouzbeh in military court, Kambakhsh initiated the activities of Tudeh Military Network in early 1944.[12]

In the first congress of Tudeh held in August 1944, Kambakhsh was elected to the central committee.[12]

After the 1946 Azerbaijan revolt, he was prosecuted with a warrant and as a result he fled the country.[12] The military tribunal sentenced him to death in absentia, forcing him into exile until his death.[4]

Bibliography

References

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  6. ^ the CIA in 1954 suspected that the Tudeh was controlled by the veteran communist Kamran. See the U.S. Embassy to the State Department, “Anti-Tudeh Campaign,” The Declassified Documents Retrospective Collection, Microfiche 1952-54 (75), 309A
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  8. ^ Tudeh Party, “Party Program,” Rahbar, 5-7 September 1944.33 A. Qassemi, Hizb-i Tudeh-i Iran Cheh Miguyad va Cheh Mikhuahad? (What Does the Tudeh Party of Iran Say and Want?) (Tehran, 1944), pp. 2-5.
  9. ^ IRAN BETWEEN TWO REVOLUTIONS, page 296, Ervand Abrahamian
  10. ^ Chaqueri, Cosroe (December 15, 1998) [January 19, 2012]. "ESKANDARĪ, ĪRAJ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 6. Vol. VIII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 604–606. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
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Party political offices
Preceded by Second Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran
1969–1971
Succeeded by
Preceded byas Caretaker Secretary-in-Charge of the Tudeh Military Network
1944–1946