Ahmad Ahmadi
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Ahmad Ahmadi (1885-1944), also known as Pezeshk Ahmadi was an infamous physician, who lived during the reign of Reza Shah in Iran.
Born in Mashad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, he became special physician at Tehran's Qasr prison. Many political prisoners died under his notorious air injections. Some of the more famous were Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Sardar As'ad and his brother Khānbābā Khān As'ad, and Taghi Arani. These murders took place while Mohammad Hosein Airom was head of Qasr prison.
When the allies stormed into Iran in 1941, Reza Pahlavi 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 notorious crimes during the first Pahlavi era.
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 the following, was arrested and sentenced for crimes committed during Reza Shah's arbitrary reign:
- Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief)
- Mostafā Rāsekh
- Hosein Niroumand
Mohammad Hosein Airom had been able to successfully flee the country before the trials. He never returned to Iran and spent the rest of his life in hiding in a village near the border of Austria. After her success in securing the extradition of Ahmadi from Iraq, Iran Teymourtash took it upon herself to travel to Austria to arrange for Airom's extradition as well. Although, she did succeed in finding him, and even visited him at his home, she failed arrange to his extradition to Iran.
Ahmadi was found guilty for numerous murders by the court and sentenced to death. He was executed in public in 1944 in Toopkhāneh Square in Tehran.
[edit] References
- Iran in the last 3 Centuries by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
- These Three Women: Ashraf Pahlavi, Mariam Firouz, and Iran Teymourtash, (EEn Se Zan") by Massoud Behnoud.
