Ahmad Ahmadi
Ahmad Ahmadi | |
|---|---|
Executed | |
| Conviction(s) | Murder (2 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Country | Iran |
Ahmad Ahmadi (
Crimes
While he was employed at
When the British and Soviets invaded Iran in 1941, Rezā Shāh of the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown, and the judiciary, headed by Jalāl Abdeh, under popular pressure, was appointed to take many infamous figures such as Ahmadi to trial for their crimes during the first Pahlavi era.
Trial and execution
After being released from exile in 1941, Iran Teymourtash travelled to Iraq and succeeded in arranging for Ahmadi's extradition to Iran on charges that he had killed her father, Abdolhossein Teymourtash.
Ahmadi, along with Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief), Mostafā Rāsekh, and Hosein Niroumand, were arrested and sentenced for crimes committed during Rezā Shāh's reign. Ahmadi was found guilty of two murders by the court and was sentenced to death. He was hanged in public in October 1944 in Tehran's Toopkhāneh Square. Prior to his execution, officials allowed Ahmadi to make a final prayer and told him to repent. After praying, Ahmadi started shouting that he was a scapegoat. Officials cut him off midway through his speech.[1]
"O people, I am not a murderer!... My only sin is that I have carried out the orders of my superiors... and now, because I am the weakest of all, everything has fallen on my shoulders... The main murderer of Brigadier Mukhtar and Reza Shah himself."[2]
See also
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen
- Colonel Pessian
References
- ^ a b "تنت به ناز این "طبیب" نیازمند مباد!". قدس آنلاین (in Persian). 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ^ "پزشک احمدی؛ افزار یا عامل قتل زندانیان سیاسی؟/ گناهم اجرای دستور مافوق بود". تاریخ ایرانی (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-08-09.
- ايران در سه قرن گذشته (Iran in the Last Three Centuries) by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol. 1 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
- These Three Women: Ashraf Pahlavi, Mariam Firouz, and Iran Teymourtash, (EEn Se Zan") by Massoud Behnoud.