Bahaedin Adab

Bahaedin Adab , also spelled Bahaeddin or Bahaoddin Adab, Kurdish "Baha Adab" (21 August 1945 – 16 August 2007) was an Iranian Kurdish politician, engineer and philanthropist. A reformist, he served as an independent deputy in the Islamic Consultative Assembly for two terms from 1996 to 2004. He co-founded the Karafarin Bank in 2001 and the Kurdish United Front in 2005.

Biography Adab was born in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, as a son of Baqer, a landowner. He received his master's degree in civil engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique).

He was elected to the Majlis of Iran as an independent in the 1996 and 2000 Iranian legislative elections, representing the constituency of (comprising Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Dîwandere) during the fifth and sixth terms of this assembly. In an interview for the Deutsche Welle, he said that the group aimed to work for democracy, justice and equality, and to enable Kurdish participation in the "pyramid of power". Iranian Confederation of Employers' Associations (ICEA), which the government attempted to dissolve and substitute in late 2006. In an interview for the US-funded Radio Farda in May 2006, he denounced the portrayal of capitalists as "bloodsuckers and parasites" in the Islamic Republic of Iran and appealed to the state to improve legal protection for investors and businesses in the country.

He died of stomach cancer on 16 August 2007 in Tehran. He was buried in "Bahasht Mhamadi" Behesht-e Mohammadi cemetery in Sanandaj alongside his parents.