Aziz Daneshrad

Aziz Daneshrad (; 1920–1991) He obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran and then became a civil servant.

He co-founded the Association of Jewish Iranian Intellectuals (Jame‘eh-ye rowshanfekran-e kalimi-ye Iran; abbreviated AJII) in 1978, a revolutionary organization that tried to challenge the old guard leadership of the Jewish community which had royalist and Zionist orientations.

After the Iranian Revolution, he took charge as the interim chairman of the Tehran Jewish Association because the previous officeholder Habib Elghanian was executed. and he is likely to have sided with opposition to inclusion of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists in the constitution.

Personal life Daneshrad married Aghdas Kiaee in 1944. The couple had three sons and two daughters.