Javad Saeed

{{Short description|Iranian politician (1923/4–1979)}}

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| office = 17th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran

| term_start = 7 October 1978

| term_end = 11 February 1979

| predecessor = Abdollah Riazi

| successor = Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

| order1 = Member of Regency Council

| appointer1 = Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

| term_start1 = 13 January 1979

| term_end1 = 22 January 1979

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| birth_date = {{circa}} {{Birth date based on age at death|55|1979|6|8}}{{citation|publisher=Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation|title=Javad Sa'id|date=February 1980|url=http://www.iranrights.org/memorial/story/-3689/javad-said}}

| birth_place = Sari, Imperial State of Iran

| death_date = 8 May 1979 (aged 55)

| death_place = Tehran, Iran

| death_cause = Execution by firing squad

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Javad Saeed ({{langx|fa|جواد سعید}}) was an Iranian politician who served as the last Speaker of the Parliament of Iran during the Pahlavi era, and was the last secretary-general of the ruling Resurgence Party.{{citation|date=1979|journal=MEED|publisher=Economic East Economic Digest Ltd|volume=23|page=17|author=Elizabeth Collard|title=Iran}} He represented Sari in the parliament.{{citation|title=Iran Almanac and Book of Facts|publisher=Echo of Iran|year=1970|page=88}} He resigned from the post of secretary-general of the Resurgence Party on 2 October 1978.{{cite book|author1=Mehrzad Boroujerdi|author2=Kourosh Rahimkhani|title=Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook|date=2018|publisher=Syracuse University Press|location=Syracuse, NY|isbn=978-0815635741|page=4|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolutionary-iran-a-political-handbook|access-date=29 August 2021|archive-date=21 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921151947/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/postrevolutionary-iran-a-political-handbook|url-status=dead}}

Saeed was appointed as a member of the Regency Council in 1979.{{cite book|author=Sepehr Zabir|title=The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D)|date=2012|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-136-81270-5|pages=52–53}} Fllowing the Iranian Revolution, he was arrested and faced seven charges in the Islamic Revolutionary Court, including corruption on earth, war on God and on prophet, insulting the religion, massacre of innocent people, physical torture and procuring; eventually leading to his execution.{{citation|publisher=Amnesty International

|page=151|title=Law And Human Rights in The Islamic Republic of Iran: A report covering events within the seven month period following the Revolution of February 1979|chapter=Post-Revolutionary Executions till 12 August 1979|date=February 1980|chapter-url=https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/200000/mde130031980en.pdf}}

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