Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi
{{Short description|Iranian literary scholar and politician}}
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| name = Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi
| image = Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi-1975.jpg
| caption = Parvin Gonabadi in 1975
| office2 = Member of Parliament of Iran
| term_start2 = 7 March 1944
| term_end2 = 12 March 1946
| constituency2 = Sabzevar
| party = Tudeh Party {{small|(1940s)}}
Socialist Party {{small|(1920s)}}
Democrat Party {{small|(1910s)}}
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| birth_place = Gonabad, Khorasan
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| nationality = Iranian
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| native_name = محمد پروین گنابادی
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Mohammad Parvin Gonabadi ({{langx|fa|محمد پروین گنابادی|Moḥammad Parvin Gonābādi}}) was an Iranian literary scholar and politician.
Early life and education
Parvin Gonabadi was born in Gonabad into a clerical family.{{citation|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|year=1982|title=Iran Between Two Revolutions|isbn=0-691-10134-5|publisher=Princeton University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/iranbetweentwore00abra_0|url-access=registration|pages=295–296, 306}} He went to Mashhad to study and became a teacher, holding literacy courses for workers and contributing to formation of a teacher's trade union.
Professional career
Parvin Gonabadi edited a newspaper in Mashhad, where he also served as the headmaster of the city's main state school for girls. He published his poems and later helped Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda to write the landmark
Political career
He joined the Democrat Party's chapter in Mashhad, and the Socialist Party during the 1920s.{{cite book|last1=Abrahamian|first1=Ervand|date=1999|url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3s2005jq/|title=Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0520922905|pages=78–79}} Due to his political activities, he was briefly imprisoned in 1926 and 1929.
In the first congress of Tudeh Party held in 1944, he was elected as a member of the central committee, though he was considered a "newcomer". In the elections for the 14th term of Iranian parliament, he took eat as the deputy for Sabzevar. He was excluded from the party's central committee in 1946, because he was not a "not [a] full-fledged Marxist".
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Category:Members of the 14th Iranian Majlis
Category:20th-century Iranian poets
Category:20th-century Iranian educators
Category:Iranian trade unionists