Mansoor Hekmat

Mansoor Hekmat was an Iranian Marxist, revolutionary, and leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI). He opposed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and after the 1979 Revolution first founded the movement of Revolutionary Marxism and in 1983 co-founded the Communist Party of Iran, which was opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 1991, he separated from this party and founded the WPI, which he led until his death in 2002. He was the husband of fellow politician Azar Majedi.