Navvab Safavi
Navvab Safavi | |
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نواب صفوی | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Mojtaba Mir-Lohi 9 October 1924 |
| Died | 18 January 1956 (aged 31) Tehran, Pahlavi Iran |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Fada'iyan-e Islam |
| Alma mater | Hawza of Najaf |
| Occupation | Cleric |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Twelver Shi'a |
| Jurisprudence | Ja'fari |
| Creed | Usuli |
Mojtaba Mir-Lohi (Persian: مجتبی میرلوحی, 9 October 1924 – 18 January 1956), better known as Navvab Safavi (Persian: نواب صفوی), was an Iranian Twelver Shi'i cleric and dissident who founded the Fada'iyan-e Islam group. He played a role in assassinations of Iranian prime ministers Abdolhossein Hazhir, Haj Ali Razmara and intellectual Ahmad Kasravi. On 22 November 1955, after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the prime minister of Iran, Hossein Ala', Safavi and some of his followers were arrested. In January 1956, Safavi and three other members of Fada'iyan-e Islam were sentenced to death and executed.