Nationality Iranian | Name Majid Sharif Role Journalist | |
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Died November 1998, Tehran, Iran Education Sharif University of Technology Similar People Mohammad Mokhtari, Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar, Dariush Forouhar, Kazem Sami, Ahmad Tafazzoli | ||
Occupation translator, journalist | ||
Majid Sharif (1951–1998; Persian: مجید شریف), was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati. Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.
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Education
Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
Death
In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned. On November 19, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 25, 1998. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.