Shahrokh Meskoob

Shahrokh Meskoob was an Iranian writer and intellectual, who was born in Babol, on the Caspian coast, in 1924 and died in Paris in 2005 at the age of eighty-one. Imprisoned in Iran for three years in the mid-1950s for leftist activities, he was foced to leave the country following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, after publishing two articles in the Ayandegan newspaper in Tehran that criticized the new regime.