Ahmad Ahmadi

For the philosopher, see Ahmad Ahmadi (philosopher).

Ahmad Ahmadi
Background information
Born	1885 Mashhad, Iran
Died	1944 (aged 58–59)
Cause of death	Execution
Killings
Country	Iran

Ahmad Ahmadi (1885–1944), also known as Pezeshk Ahmadi, was an Iranian physician who killed numerous political prisoners while employed at Tehran's Qasr prison.

Crimes

Born in Mashhad to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, he became special physician at Qasr prison. Many political prisoners died under his notorious air injections. Some of the more famous were Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi, Abdolhossein Teymourtash, Sardar As'ad and his brother Khānbābā Khān As'ad, and Taghi Arani.

When the allies stormed into Iran in 1941, leader Rezā Shāh of the Pahlavi Dynasty was overthrown, and the judiciary, headed by Jalāl Abdeh, under popular pressure, was appointed to take many infamous figures such as Ahmadi to trial for their notorious crimes during the first Pahlavi era.

Trial and execution

After being released from exile in 1941, Iran Teymourtash travelled to Iraq and succeeded in arranging for Ahmadi's extradition to Iran on charges that he had killed her father, Abdolhossein Teymourtash.

Ahmadi, along with Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police Chief), Mostafā Rāsekh, and Hosein Niroumand, was arrested and sentenced for crimes committed during Rezā Shāh's arbitrary reign.

Ahmadi was found guilty for numerous murders by the court and sentenced to death. He was executed in public in 1944 in Tehran's Toopkhāneh Square.

References

• Iran in the last 3 Centuries by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol1 ISBN 964-93406-6-1 Vol2 ISBN 964-93406-5-3
• These Three Women: Ashraf Pahlavi, Mariam Firouz, and Iran Teymourtash, (EEn Se Zan") by Massoud Behnoud.

See also

• Amir Abdollah Tahmasebi
• Abdolhossein Teymourtash
• Iran Teymourtash
• Mahmud Khan Puladeen
• Colonel Pesian

Persondata
Name	Ahmadi, Ahmad
Alternative names	Ahmadi, Pezeshk
Short description	Serial killer
Date of birth	1885
Place of birth	Mashhad, Iran
Date of death	1944
Place of death	Tehran, Iran