Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi

Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi
Born 1889
Yazd, Iran
Died October 18, 1939
Qasr prison, Tehran
Nationality Iranian
Occupation poet, journalist and senior politician

Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi (Persian: میرزا محمد فرخی یزدی‎‎; 1889 – October 18, 1939) was an Iranian poet, journalist and senior politician of the Reza Pahlavi era.

Biography

Born in Yazd and his father was Mohammad Ebrahim Yazdi, he started his preliminary education in Yazd until the age of 16 when he was expelled from school for his poems against school teachers and principal.

By the age of 16, he had already started writing poetry and gradually became active during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and was imprisoned because of writing material in opposition to the infamous 1919's Anglo-Persian Agreement. In prison, he protested that “He whose only offense is love of the motherland / No creed would condemn to a dark cell…”.

In 1921, he published the political newspaper Toufan (storm), winning fame for his poetry and constant attacks against Reza Pahlavi in his editorials.

Farokhi Yazdi clink

Finally, in 1939, he was arrested, sentenced to prison at Tehran's Qasr prison, and died by air injection under Dr. Ahmad Ahmadi.

He has a poem related to British politician, Lord Curzon:

Lord Curzon has gotten angry
He is going to write a lament;
We don't exchange dignity with abasement
We don't obey embassy;
O' Curzon, abandon us
You cann't exploit the country of Jamshid;

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