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Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard

Ali-Akbar Aboutorabi Fard
Supreme Leader in Azadegan (released war captives) Affairs Headquarters
Member of Parliament of Iran
Constituency Tehran (1992–1996)
Tehran (1996–2000)
Personal details
Born 1939
Qom
Died June 2, 2000
On way to Mashhad
Cause of death car crash
Nationality Iranian
Political party Association for Defence of Revolution Values (1996–1999)
Education Kharij Fiqh and Usul
Religion Islam

Hojatoleslam Seyyed Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard (1939 – June 2, 2000) was an Iranian revolutionary. During the Iran–Iraq War, he organized the militia, was captured, and spent 10 years in Iraqi prisons. On his release he became the Supreme Leader’s representative to Azadegan (released war captives) Affairs Headquarters and Tehran representative in the 4th and 5th terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Hojatoleslam Seyyed Ali Akbar Aboutorabi Fard was born in 1939 in Qom. In childhood he saw all Reza khan’s violence against religion and seminaries and clerics of Islam. He also saw women of family stay at home in Kashfe hijab time and found his ancestors in fight path against Pahlavi’s irreligion plans.

He was the champion in swimming event Amjadiyeh in Tehran and was the top player in football and volleyball in high school. In 1957 after finishing high school his uncle insisted that he would go to Germany and continue his education there. He thought continued studying in seminaries would leave him poor and needy. But after a little hesitation in Qom, in 1958 he went to Mashhad to learning regional science hence he could to escape his uncle's insistence. However he made a covenant with himself never get financial assistance, even from his father. In Mashhad he was living in paltry room in Navvab School and was engaged in teaching and learning.

With beginning of Imam Khomeini’s movement, he found Qom as the center of struggle so he returned there in 1963. He resided in the Hojjatie School to be engaged in Khomeini's companions activities. in 1965 subsequent to Imam Khomeini’s exile to Najaf Hojatoleslam Aboutorabi rushed to his presence to attend his Kharij Fiqh and Usul courses.

In 1967, Aboutorabi came back to Iran and married at the age of 28. Then he turn back to Najaf with his wife.

He attended the ceremony for the Devotees of Islam and was a spectator at their gatherings when he was a teenager.


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