Ahmad Ahmadi
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Ahmad Ahmadi (1885-1944), AKA 'Pezeshk Ahmadi' was an infamous physician, who lived during the reign of Reza Pahlavi in Iran.
Born in Mashad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, he became special physician at Tehran's Qasr prison. Many political prisoners died under his notorious air injections. Some of the more famous are Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, Teymour Tash, Sardar As'ad and his brother Khānbābā Khān As'ad, and Taghi Arani. These murders took place while Mohammad Hosein Airom was head of Qasr prison.
When the allies stormed into Iran in 1941, Reza Pahlavi was overthrown, and the judiciary, headed by Jalāl Abdeh, under popular pressure, was appointed to take many infamous figures such as Ahmadi to trial for their notorious crimes during the first Pahlavi era.
Ahmadi and the following were arrested and sentenced:
- Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief)
- Mostafā Rāsekh
- Hosein Niroumand
Mohammad Hosein Airom had been able to successfully flee the country before the trials. He never returned to Iran and spent the rest of his life in hiding in a village near the border of Austria.
Ahmadi was found guilty for numerous murders by the court and sentenced to death. He was executed in public in 1944 in Toopkhāneh Square in Tehran.
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The following reference was used for the above writing: "Iran in the last 3 Centuries" by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
