Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
Ebrahim Asgharzadeh | |
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Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr | |
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| Political party | Tehran Polytechnic |
Ebrahim Asgharzadeh (
Overview
Asgharzadeh was a 24-year-old Industrial engineering student at a
Asgharzadeh became well known as a leader of the embassy takeover. From 1982 to 1988, Asgharzadeh worked closely with future president
After 1988 Asgharzadeh began calling for more openness and "voicing his opposition to the clerics' policies."
In 1998 Asgharzadeh was preaching the importance of city and village council elections that would build democracy in Iran from the ground up. He was beaten up in the city of
In early 2001 he was a city council member in Tehran, speaking out against the news blackout of his candidacy imposed by reformist papers, and the polarization of presidential elections. He attempted to run as a
He was later arrested for publishing the reformist Salam newspaper which was critical of the government.[4]
In his politics and journalism Asgharzadeh has strongly urged the
In foreign policy, Asgharzadeh has been described as an advocate of "improved relations with the United States", who questioned President Khatami's handling of "an opportunity to mend relations with the United States" when he (Khatami) failed to follow up on a March 2000 acknowledgement by American Secretary of State
In 2019, Asgharzadeh was interviewed by the Associated Press. He said that he regretted the embassy takeover and that Iranian student leaders bore sole responsibility: "Like Jesus Christ, I bear all the sins on my shoulders".[8]
In popular culture
In 2022, Asgharzadeh was interviewed in the HBO documentary Hostages. He claimed that that he was the mastermind of the hostage taking; however, he said that he was only planning to keep the hostages for 48 hours as opposed to 444 days.
References
- ^ Ebrahim Asgharzadeh Biography Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Personal Website (Persian)
- ^ Bowden, Mark, Guests of the Ayatollah, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006, p. 615
- ^ a b c d e Fathi, Nazila (5 November 2002). "Former Hostage Taker Now Likes to Take on the Mullahs". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Remembering the Iran hostage crisis. 4 November 2004
- ^ Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies by Barbara Slavin p. 109
- ^ "5/6/2001. Presidential hopeful slams reformist papers' news blackout". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- ^ Abedin, Mahan (12 December 2008). "The great wall between Iran and the US". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 14 December 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Karimi, Nasser; Nasiri, Mohammad (2 November 2019). "Iran student leader now regrets 1979 takeover of US Embassy". The Times of Israel. Associated Press. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
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