Tudeh Military Network

The Officers' Organization (Persian: سازمان افسران)[6] or the Military Organization (Persian: سازمان نظامی)[6] of the Tudeh Party, also known as Tudeh Military Network,[1] was an intelligence gathering network that infiltrated the Iranian Armed Forces using clandestine cell system method.

Tudeh Military Network
Founding leaderAbdulsamad Kambakhsh[1]
LeadersKhosro Roozbeh
Dates of operation1944[1]–1957[2]
1970s[2]–1983
AllegianceSoviet Union
Active regionsIran
IdeologyCommunism
Size≈600 (1954)[3]
≈100 (1983)[4]
Part ofTudeh Party of Iran
AlliesAzerbaijani Democratic Party[1]
Democratic Party of Kurdistan[5]
OpponentsSecond Bureau
British Network
Battles and wars1945 Khorasan revolt
1946 Azerbaijan revolt

Bibliography

  • Black Book on Tudeh Officers Organization [Ketab-e Siyah darbareh-e Sazman-e Afsaran-e Tudeh] (Translated ed.). Office of the Military Governor of Teheran. 2014 [1956]. ISBN 978-3844278132 via epubli.

References

  1. Miyata, Osamu (July 1987), "The Tudeh Military Network during the Oil Nationalization Period", Middle Eastern Studies, 23 (3): 313–328, doi:10.1080/00263208708700709, JSTOR 4283187
  2. Gasiorowski, Mark J. (November 1993), "The Qarani Affair and Iranian Politics", International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25 (4): 625–644, doi:10.1017/S0020743800059298, JSTOR 164538, S2CID 154722900
  3. Daneshvar, Parviz (2016). Revolution in Iran. Springer. p. 37. ISBN 978-1349140626.
  4. Zabir, Sepehr (2011). The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D) (Reprint. ed.). Routledge. p. 129. ISBN 978-0-415-61785-7.
  5. Michael M. Gunter (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Scarecrow Press. p. 133. ISBN 9780810875074.
  6. Behrooz, Maziar (August 2001). "Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 363–82. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003026. JSTOR 259456. S2CID 162990418.
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