Khosro Roozbeh | |
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| Born | August 24, 1915 |
| Died | May 11, 1958 (aged 42) |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Political party | Tudeh Party of Iran |
| Military career | |
| Service/ | Imperial Iranian Army |
| Years of service | 1939–1947 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Artillery |
| Alma mater | Officers' Academy |
Khosro Roozbeh (Persian: خسرو روزبه) (24 August 1915 – 11 May 1958) was an Iranian military officer, mathematician, writer on political and cultural affairs and the chief of military branch of the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran and has been called "probably the most controversial as well as the best-known martyr of the communist movement in Iran".[1]
Roozbeh was the author of a number of pamphlets on chess, artillery warfare, and together with co-author Ardeshir Ovanessian, the country's first political lexicon, Vocabulary of Political and Social Terms.
- ^ Abrahamian, Ervand, Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian, University of California Press, 1999, p. 81