Fadayan-e Islam

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Fadayan-e Islam was founded in 1946 as an Islamic fundamentalist organization. The founder of the group was a man named Navab Safavi, a religious cleric. The group's aim was to transform Iran into an Islamic state. To achieve their objective, the group committed numerous terrorist acts. Notable among these was the 1946 assassination of Ahmad Kasravi, an intellectual who had criticized the mullahs (Shia Islamic clergy). The group also assassinated two prime ministers (Ali Razmara and Hassan Ali Mansour, 1951 and 1965) and an ex-prime minister (Hazhir, 1949). Although Navab Safavi, the group's founder, was executed by the Shah's government in 1955, the group continued to survive and many of its members went on to serve in the Islamic Republic regime, established after the 1979 revolution.