‘Abdu’lláh Mogharrabi

‘Abdu’lláh Mogharrabi (November 15, 1911 - September 24, 1999) was a Persian Bahá’í who pioneered to Tajikistan where he was murdered.

Biography

Mogharrabi was born into a Bahá’í family in Isfahan in 1911. He served in the Iranian army and achieved the rank of General. After retiring from the army he settled in Tehran with his wife Homayoun Firuzmand and in 1974 he was appointed to the National Pioneering and Communication Committee.

When the Iranian Revolution began in 1979 Mogharrabi left the country and settled in England where his daughter lived. As of 1991 he had secured British citizenship and that year he pioneerd to Tajikistan where he servd on th Local Spiritual Assembly of Dushanbe. He was also appointed to the Regional Teaching and Administrative Committee for Tajikistan and then elected to the National Spiritual Assembly when it was established in 1994.

Around 1999 a popular Iranian newspaper published Mogharrabi's name identifying him as a Bahá’í and accusing the Bahá’í Faith of being a cult seeking to deceive people and on September 25, 1999, he was found dead having had his hands tied behind his back and a cloth stuffed in his mouth with his body showing signs he had been tortured and a gunshot wound in his back. Although no valuables had been taken from his home the police investigation concluded his murder had been the result of a robbery.