Bijan Jazni was one of the most prominent leftist figures of the 1950s and 1960s, remembered for his intellectual influence and tragic fate. After the coup of August 1953, he was arrested several times for political activism. Only months after the coup, he was detained but released within weeks due to his young age and the unstable condition of the military judiciary. In Ordibehesht 1954, he was arrested again, and later that year he received a six-month prison sentence. After his release in 1955, he resumed underground activities and faced repeated imprisonment between 1959 and 1963.
In 1963, Jazni graduated as the top student in philosophy from University of Tehran. By the mid-1960s, his group adopted a political-military strategy. In 1965, he was sentenced to nine months in prison alongside other student activists formerly linked to the National Front. Eventually, his circle joined forces with the group of Masoud Ahmadzadeh and Amir Parviz Pouyan, forming the Iranian People’s Fadaei Guerrillas. Their armed struggle became widely known after the attack on the Siahkal outpost in 1971. Jazni was ultimately executed in prison in April 1975, along with eight other political prisoners.
