Yousef Abbasian Milani
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Yousef Abbasian Milani | |
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| Born | 1927 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
| Died | c. 1980 |
| ABM | Asia ???? - 1980 |
Yousef Abbasian Milani (1927 - c. 1980) was a Persian Bahá’í who served as an Auxiliary Board member. He was abducted following the 1979 Revolution in Iran and is assumed to have been martyred.
Biography[edit]
Milani was born into a Bahá’í family in Ashgabat in what is now in Turkmenistan in 1927. He studied dentistry at Tehran University in Iran and in 1957 he moved to the United States where he completed specialization training.[1]
After Milani returned to Iran from America he was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member. On August 12, 1980, Milani and another Auxiliary Board member attended a meeting of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran and the attendees at the meeting were abducted by Revolutionary guards and never seen again.[1]
