Mir Asadollah Madani


Mir Asadollah Madani Dehkharghani was an Iranian politician, Shia cleric, second imam Jumu'ah for Tabriz and Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan less than one year in the period activity Muslim People's Republic Party in Tabriz. Also Madani was the member of the first term Assembly of Experts from the Hamadan Province electorate. He was Assassinated by People's Mujahedin of Iran, when praying in Tabriz in Mihrab after Mohammad-Ali Ghazi-Tabatabaei, so he had known as "the second martyr of Mihrab".

Memorial of Madani

In 1970 he returned to Iran and opposition to the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was exiled to Bandar Kangan. He was arrested by SAVAK and was deported several times during the 1961 decade. In such circumstances, he was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. Examine her medical records and death with the strong possibility of the disease, SAVAK to escape the pressures of the religious spectrum in 1972 banished him to the Valley Moradbeik around Hamedan."
After the 1978 Iranian Revolution on behalf of the Assembly of Experts Hamadan, and later was appointed as Friday Imam of Tabriz.

Assassination

On 11 September 1981, Madani was approached and hugged by an unknown man who pretended to have a question, after Madani had finished Friday Prayer. The attacker then detonated the grenade he had hid under his cloth which led to the death of Ayatollah Madani and three others and injury of 50 people. Madani was killed in Mihrab and hence acquired the title "the second martyr of Mihrab", the first one being Ali ibn Abi Talib whom was assassinated while praying in mosque. MEK claimed responsibility for the assassination."