[custom_adv] Seyyed Hossein Emami (born 1303; died 1328) was a member of the Fadayan Islam group. Along with his brother Ali Mohammad, he killed Ahmad Kasravi with a knife on March 20, 1324, in the Palace of Justice, but he was released from prison at the insistence of the authorities at the time, including Abdul Hossein Hajir. Four years later, Seyyed Hossein Emami killed Hajir, who was the minister of the court, during the Muharram prayer ceremony of Sepahsalar Mosque on November 13, 1328, and was executed for the same crime. [custom_adv] In the memoirs of Shaaban Jafari, we read about him: For example, Seyyed Hossein and Seyyed Ali Emami, who killed Ahmed Kasravi, as I heard then, came to Kashani's house and left. But it was not by the order of Ayatollah Kashani that the Justice and Sayyid Hossein killed themselves and Sayyid Ali, his secretary [Hadadpour]. For a while at our place, on Bozarjamhari Street, they were selling cloth and Marcheh. Seyyed Hossein was a very beautiful child, with blonde hair and so on. [custom_adv] Then, when they see that Kasravi and these don't accept the Koran, as they themselves said, they find a mission and go to the court, where it seems that Kasravi was on trial that day. Seyyed Hossein kills Kasravi, then Kasravi's secretary, who seems to have a bullet, is injured in the leg of Seyyed Ali, Seyed Hossein's brother, but Seyed Ali kills the secretary. [custom_adv] Then they brought them to the prison. By the way, I was in prison at that time, and I heard them in prison. Then they are such rigid and religious people that when they take Seyed Hossein Emami to the gallows, he says, Put my handkerchief in my pocket and tie it around my neck because your rope is dirty and unclean. [custom_adv] [custom_adv] Fadā'iyān-e Islam is a Shia fundamentalist group in Iran with a strong activist political and terrorist orientation. The group was founded in 1946, and registered as a political party in 1989. It was founded by a theology student nicknamed Navvab Safavi. Safavi sought to purify Islam in Homeland by ridding it of 'corrupting individuals' by means of carefully planned assassinations of certain leading intellectual and political figures. [custom_adv] The group was part of a "growing nationalist mobilization against foreign domination" in the Middle East after World War II, and has been said to presage more famous Islamist terrorist groups.Its membership is said to have been made up of youth employed in "the lower echelons of the Tehran bazaar." Its program went beyond generalities about following the sharia to demand prohibitions of alcohol, tobacco, opium, films, gambling, wearing of foreign clothing, the enforcement of amputation of hands of thieves, and the veiling of women, and an elimination from school curriculum of all non-Muslim subjects such as music.
