Hamid Ashraf (1946 – 1976) was one of the original member and later the leader of the Organization of People’s Fedai Guerrillas (OIPFG) that waged a guerrilla warfare against the former Pahlavi regime in homeland from February 8, 1971 till February 11, 1979, the Shah’s fall. Hamid Ashraf played a key role in consolidating the OIPFG as a militant armed organisation against the Shah’s regime.
Hamid Ashraf was born in capital to an educated middle-class family. He was raised in capital and, for a few years, in Tabriz. He entered capital University, first as a physics students and then engineering. He was already involved in politics as a member of a newly formed underground leftist group called Jazani-Zarifi group in the persian left history. He was active in student movement as well as in sports, being the head of swimming team at the school of engineering at capital University.
