Mohammad
Hossein Naghdi
was a member of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance,
assassinated on March 16th, 1993 in via delle Egadi, in
the district of Montesacro, in Rome, Italy.
Mohammed had arrived in Rome in 1981, when the Khomeini regime
had appointed him ambassador, but a year later, he had "repudiated"
the Islamic government, "impressed by the horrors of the
regime" and had become one of the leading exponents of the
all Khomeinist integralism. He was then entrusted with the official
representation of the Iranian National Liberation Council, which
was based in via delle Egadi. Since that moment the Tehran regime
has decreed the death sentence, after his brother and cousin,
murdered after atrocious torture.
Recently another cousin of him, the instigator of the murder of
his relatives, had been appointed head of the secret services
of the Iranian police, and Hussein understood that it would be
his turn.
Mohammad was born in Yazd, Iran, on March 25th,
1951 and therefore was about his 42th birthday when he was assassinated.
He was married to Ferminia Moroni, an Italian from Foligno.
Naghdi is buried in the non-Catholic
cemetery of Rome, near the Pyramid of Cestius, in Zone 3, Box
2, Row 6, Position 13. On the tombstone an inscription in Persian
is placed and, below, an epitaph
in Italian:
"Mohammad Hossein
Naghdi
Diplomat - Representative of the Iranian resistance,
A humane gentle ardent hero killed by the
Khomeinist ferocity. He lives through his ideals
And his loved ones.
Yazd 25. 3. 1951 Rome 16. 3. 1993"
Mohammad is remembered by a plaque
in piazza Elba, a few hundred meters
from the place of the assassination, and by another plaque
in Ancona, in piazza Cavour.
.
Websites
visited
https://www.cemeterywalks.it/defunti/naghdi-mohammed-hossein/
https://formiche.net/2020/08/teheran-spie-iran-naghdi/.
https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1993/03/17/prima-il-fratello-adesso-lui.html
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created on: November
12th, 2022 and last updated: August 26th, 2023