In 1963, after the arrest of the members of the National Front of Iran’s executive board, Takhti was elected to the interim executive board of the National Front.
When Mohammad Mossadegh died on March 4, 1966, Gholamreza Takhti did not listen to the threats of military and security officials to refrain from traveling to Ahmadabad and told the officers to “arrest me.”
On September 1, 1962, a massive earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale completely destroyed the city of Buin-Zahra and the villages of the Qazvin plain. The Buin Zahra earthquake killed about twenty thousand people and left thousands of families homeless. At the suggestion of Kayhan Sports and Kayhan Newspaper, he was asked to collect aid for the earthquake victims.Takhti accepted and walked with a box on his neck from Saei Park on Pahlavi Street to Kayhan Hall on Ferdowsi Street. Using a loudspeaker, he personally asked people to help their fellow countrymen affected by the earthquake with whatever they could. Women threw earrings, necklaces, and rings, and men threw their donations of money into the box hanging from Takhti’s neck. The reactions were so incredible that a huge wave of benefactors immediately set out and dozens of truckloads were entrusted to him.
