Reza Radmanesh (Persian: رضا رادمنش; 1905/06–1983) was an Iranian physicist, communist politician and general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran. According to Abbas Milani, he was "one of the most prominent members of the Iranian communist movement".[3]
Early life and education
Radmanesh was born into a Gilak landed upper-class family. He helped the local Jangalis as a teenager; and joined the Socialist Party while he studied at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, and met Taghi Arani, before he returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.[4]
^ abMilani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 165. ISBN978-0815609070.