Asghar Sayyed Javadi

Ali-Asghar Sadr Haj Seyyed Javadi (; 1925–2018) was an Iranian writer, journalist and activist.

According to Farhang Rajaee, he was "a leading intellectual of the day".

Early life and education He was born in 1925 in Qazvin. In 1951, he obtained a PhD in philosophy from University of Paris.

Career During his youth, he was a member of Tudeh Party of Iran but he later became a social democrat. An Iranian Writers Association member, he also wrote for Kayhan.

Mehrdad Mashayekhi argues that he belonged to the Third Worldist current in Iran, and considers him among "radical nationalist intellectuals" who were closely associated with the League of Iranian Socialists. Afshin Matin-Asgari states that he had an "independent socialist background" that he shared with people with Jalal Al-e-Ahmad. He was critical of the U.S. government neocolonialist policies from a Third Worldist perspective, as reflected in his columns published in the 1960s.

In 1977, he was among the members and founders of the newly formed Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights (ICDFHR). Mehdi Bazargan was elected as the head and Javadi as the vice head of the committee. and ran for a Tehran seat for the Assembly of Experts for Constitution under the banner of Quintuple Coalition. He garnered more votes than any defeated candidate and about one million less than the last elected candidate. Asghar Sayyed Javadi is featured on the front page of the newspaper The Shah Is Gone.

Electoral history