Saeed Soltanpour
Iranian film director, playwright and poet
About Saeed Soltanpour
Lived 1940 – 1981 (aged 40–41). Saeed Soltanpour was an Iranian film director, playwright and poet.
Saeed Soltanpour was an Iranian poet, playwright, and theater director who was deeply involved in left-wing politics and a member of the Iranian Writers Association. He was executed on July 26, 1981, by the Islamic Republic authorities during the 1981–1982 Iran Massacres.
Biography A founding member of Iran's Theatre Society in 1968, many of his plays faced censorship in Iran. His final play was titled Koshtargah ("Slaughter House"). In 1980, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Writers Association of Iran.
During his summary trial in 1981, Soltanpour stated that he viewed the Islamic Republic as a corrupt government that would soon be "crushed by the people it has betrayed." Judge Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani declared him a "crusader against God", and sentenced him to death.
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Iranian film director, playwright and poet
When was Saeed Soltanpour born?
Saeed Soltanpour was born in 1940 in Sabzevar.
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Saeed Soltanpour died in 1981 in Tehran.
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Saeed Soltanpour was a film director, playwright and poet.
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Saeed Soltanpour was Iranian.
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