Ahmad Ahmadi
| Ahmad Ahmadi | |
|---|---|
| Born: | 1885 Mashhad, Iran |
| Died: | 1944 (aged 58–59) |
| Cause of death: | Execution |
| Penalty: | Death |
| Country: | Iran |
Ahmad Ahmadi (1885–1944), also known as Pezeshk Ahmadi, was an Iranian physician who killed numerous political prisoners while employed at Tehran's Qasr prison.
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Crimes
Born in Mashhad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, he became special physician at 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, leader Rezā Shāh of the Pahlavi Dynasty 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.
Trial and execution
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 Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief), Mostafā Rāsekh, and Hosein Niroumand, was arrested and sentenced for crimes committed during Rezā Shāh's arbitrary reign.
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 Ahmadi's extradition 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 Tehran's Toopkhāneh Square.
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.
See also
- Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
- Mohammad Hosein Airom
- Abdolhossein Teymourtash
- Iran Teymourtash
- Mahmud Khan Puladeen
- Colonel Pesian
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmadi, Ahmad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahmadi, Pezeshk |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mashhad, Iran |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Tehran, Iran |
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