Marzieh Hadidchi

Marzieh Hadidchi (Persian: مرضیه حدیدچی‎, 12 June 1939 – 17 November 2016), also known as Marzieh Dabbaq and Tahere Dabagh, was an Iranian Islamist activist, political prisoner, military commander in the Iran–Iraq War, a politician and representative of Hamedan in the Iranian parliament in the second, third, fourth and the fifth Majles. She was also one of the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Marzieh Hadidchi Dabbaq
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
3 May 1996 – 3 May 2000
ConstituencyHamedan
Majority216,015 (28.55%)[1]
In office
28 May 1984 – 28 May 1996
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority878,298 (47.40%)[2]
Personal details
Born
Tahere Dabagh

(1939-06-12)12 June 1939
Hamedan, Iran
Died17 November 2016(2016-11-17) (aged 77)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partyAssociation of the Women of the Islamic Republic
ProfessionPolitician, Military Commander
Awards Medal of Altruism (3rd Order)
Military service
Allegiance Iran
Branch/service Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Years of service1979–1984
CommandsHamedan Corps
Battles/wars1979 Kurdish rebellion in Iran
Iran–Iraq War

Early activity

She started her political activities with the Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Saidi circle. She was arrested by SAVAK in 1972 and severely tortured. SAVAK also arrested and tortured her 14-year-old daughter (Rezvaneh Mirza Dabagh).[3]

She escaped prison by Mohammad Montazeri's efforts and went to London with a fake passport and after 6 months she moved to Lebanon, where she learned military tactics under supervision of Mostafa Chamran. She accompanied Ayatollah Khomeini during his exile in Paris.[4][5][6]

After revolution

After the revolution, she became the chief of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Hamedan. She was one of the three messengers of Ayatollah Khomeini to Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

She has been the representative of Parliament of Iran for three terms.[7][8] She had headed The Association of the Women of the Islamic Republic from 1987 until 2012.[9] She died on 17 November 2016 at Tehran's Khatam Anbia Hospital after long illness. She was buried on the following day in near Mausoleum of Khomeini in Behesht-e Zahra.

Notes
  1. "مرکز پژوهشها - مرضیه حدید چی". rc.majlis.ir. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. "مرکز پژوهشها - مرضیه حدیدچی دباغ". rc.majlis.ir. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. رضوانه ميرزادباغ, پایگاه اطلاع رسانی فرهنگ ایثار و شهادت, archived from the original on 2012-03-31
  4. مصاحبه با مرضيه حديدچی, بانوی ایرانی
  5. وجود مادرم مرا آرام می کرد ، خاطرات رضوانه میرزا دباغ از دوران شکنجه, مجله شاهد یاران
  6. زخم های روح و تن خواهر طاهره, Labor News Agency of Iran, archived from the original on 2012-03-20
  7. WLUML: Publications Archived 2005-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Islamic Republic of Iran Parliament (majlis) Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
  9. The Association of the Women of the Islamic republic
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