Kámbíz Sádiqzádih
Kámbíz Sádiqzádih | |
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| Born | 1938 |
| Died | c. 1980 |
| NSA member | Iran 1980 |
Dr. Kámbíz Sádiqzádih (1938 - c. 1980) was a Persian Bahá’í who served on the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran. He was abducted in the wake of the 1979 Revolution in Iran and is assumed to have been martyred.
Biography[edit]
Sádiqzádih was born into a Bahá’í family. He studied medicine at Tehran University and in 1967 he moved to the United States to study psychiatry establishing a medical practice there.[1]
Sádiqzádih returned to Iran and established a psychiatric practice in Tehran at some point. In 1979 he was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tehran as persecution of the Bahá’í community intensified during the Revolution and that year his home was ransacked by a mob and his practice was broken into several times.[1]
In 1980 Sádiqzádih was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran and on August 21, 1980, he was abducted at an Assembly meeting along with the majority of the Assembly and two Auxiliary Board members and never seen again.[1]
