Amir Farshad Ebrahimi
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Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (Ibrahimi), (Persian: امیر فرشاد ابراهیمی; born August 14, 1975) A former member of Hezbollah of Iran and an officer of Sepah (IRGC), currently a peace and human rights activist living in Germany. Ebrahimi was born in Tehran, Zargandeh. At the age of 12 he joined Basij and fought in the Iran-Iraq War field. Right after graduation from Alborz high school he joined the Qods special forces, one of the fivefold forces of Sepah and graduated as a lieutenant from Imam Ali military school of Qods army with the major in psychological warfare engineering. He was among the first series of sepah officers who were sent to North Korea. He also got a bachelor of fine art (Cinema Major) in 1997. He was the media attaché of the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon from 1997 to 1998. After coming back from Lebanon he went to the law school and got his Master Degree in International Law from Tehran University in 2002. He is currently a Doctoral student in the Middle East University-Ankara majoring in human rights (anticipating graduation in March, 2006).
Ebrahimi appears in a controversial videotape in the year 2000, apparently confessing to a link between the hardline Iranian political and religious leaders and violent actions of brown shirts in Iran known as Hezbollah (not to be confused with Hezbollah in Lebanon). Ebrahimi had previously held close connections to the members of this group revealed a number of their inside secrets in the video tape. After the circulation of this tape, human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi was accused by an Iranian court to have been involved in making the tape. She was vacated and released from prison after a brief period. Ebrahimi was also sentenced and spent two years in prison.[1]
He has written two books: From Sarband to Blindfold and Republic of Ghosts, both in Persian, which were banned by Iranian regime, right after being available to the public. As of February, 2006, he is living in Germany and Turkey studying and writing his memories of those days when he was an insider and analyzing Iran’s news.
