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Ja'far Pishevari | |
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| President of Azerbaijan People's Government | |
| In office 2 November 1945 – 15 November 1946 | |
| Member-elect of the Parliament of Iran | |
| In office Admission refused on 13 July 1944 | |
| Constituency | Tabriz |
| Interior Minister of the Persian Socialist Soviet Republic | |
| In office 1921 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jafar Javadzadeh[1] August 26, 1892 Zaviyeh-ye Sadat, Khalkhal, Sublime State of Persia |
| Died | June 11, 1947 (aged 54) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Cause of death | Car crash |
| Citizenship | Iran Soviet Union[2] |
| Political party | Azerbaijani Democratic Party |
| Other political affiliations | |
Sayyed Ja'far Pishevari (Persian: سید جعفر پیشهوری; Azerbaijani: سید جعفر پیشهوری; Russian: Сеид Джафар Пишевари; 26 August 1892 – 11 June 1947) was an Iranian Azerbaijani communist[3] politician who most-notably founded and led the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, the founding and ruling party of the Azerbaijan People's Government.
- ^ Ghods, M. Reza (1990). "The Iranian Communist Movement under Reza Shah". Middle Eastern Studies. 26 (4). Taylor & Francis: 506–513. doi:10.1080/00263209008700833. JSTOR 4283395.(subscription required)
- ^ Lucas, William O. (1946), East of the Iron Curtain, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, p. 263
- ^ Iran in the 21st Century: Politics, Economics & Conflict, page 51, Homa Katouzian, Hossein Shahidi, Routledge