Reza Saffar-Harandi


Reza Saffar-Harandi was an Iranian Twelver Shia Muslim who was a member of Islamic Coalition Party. He was born in 1946 in a religious family; his brother Ali-Asqar Harandi was a Shia cleric. Reza Saffar-Harrandi studied at religious lessons to his brother after passing his primary school. He also used to work in his brother's shop.
Saffar-Harandi had activities at his brother's mosque; and got acquainted there with Mohammad Bokharaei ; Saffar-Harandi eventually became familiar with Islamic Coalition Party. This political activist was Mohammad-Bokharaei's accomplice in Mansur's assassination, and escaped after the assassination, although he was later arrested. He was executed by the regime of the Shah on 16 June 1965 along with his three colleagues, namely: Mohammad Bokharaei, Sadeq Amani, and Morteza Niknejad, who were charged with "participation in the assassination of Hassan Ali Mansur, the prime minister of that time".