According to Ervand Abrahamian, along with Rajavi, he acted as the organization’s post-1979 spokesman and viewed as equal to Rajavi by the outsiders, despite the fact that MEK insiders knew Rajavi to be pre-eminent.Khiabani was born into a bazaari family in 1947,he frequently participated in the Moharram rituals.
He studied physics at the University of capital. Trained in guerilla warfare in Lebanon, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1972 for his activities with the MEK, however he was released in 1979 following Revolution.He ran for a seat in the 1979 constitutional and 1980 parliamentary elections from his hometown, however he was defeated.
