Seyyed Hossein Emami, member of Fada’iyan-e Islam

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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.

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