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Jalal Al-e Ahmad

Died in 1969

Seyyed Jalal Al-e Ahmad was born in Tehran on 2 December 1923 into a clerical family; his father destined him for the bazaar, and he secretly attended the evening classes of the Dar ol-Fonoun. Sent in 1944 to the seminary of Najaf, he came back very soon and graduated from the Higher Teachers' College in 1946. A teacher all his life, a member of the Tehran committee of the Tudeh party, he left it in 1947 with Khalil Maleki in protest against the Soviet invasion of Azerbaijan, supported Mossadegh and in 1952 founded the Third Force with others. Married in 1950 to Simin Daneshvar, he died in Asalem on 9 September 1969.

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