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Ja'far Pishevari
Ja'far Pishevari was an Iranian Azerbaijani communist who led the Azerbaijan People's Government, set up in Tabriz in 1945 under Soviet occupation. A veteran of the Gilan Soviet Republic and long imprisoned under Reza Shah, he founded the Azerbaijan Democratic Party in September 1945. When Soviet troops withdrew in 1946 the Iranian army reoccupied Tabriz, and he fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in a car accident in 1947.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ja'far Pishevari. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/jafar-pishevari
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