Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh (; 21 March 1977 – 7 May 2016) was an Iranian principlist politician who was elected as the representative of Maragheh and Ajabshir electoral district in the

2016 Iranian legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 26 February 2016 to elect members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly for all seats in the 10th parliament in the Islamic Republic era and the 34th since the Persian Constitutional Revolution. A seco ...

2016 election

In the first round of the elections, the

Principlists Grand Coalition Principlists Grand Coalition () is a principlist coalition and electoral list for the 2016 Iranian legislative election. Member groups The alliance is mainly made up by the members of the 'traditional' parties Combatant Clergy Association and ...

listed no candidate in Maragheh and Ajabshir district because there were two Principlist candidates contesting against each other, incumbent Mehdi Davatgari (supported by

United Front of Principlists United Front of Principlists (, ''Jabhah-e Muttahid-e Uṣūlgarāyān'') was an Iranian principlist political coalition that contested the 2008 and 2012 legislative elections. Member groups 2008 * Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam ...

in 2012 election) and Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh. The

List of Hope Pervasive Coalition of Reformists: The Second Step (), named The List of Hope () by Mohammad Khatami, was the sole coalition and electoral list affiliated with the Iranian reform movement for the 2016 legislative election. The group also endorsed ...

chose to declare "silence", meaning they were not endorsing any candidate. People's Voice listed Davatgari, while

Front of Prudence and Development Front of Prudence and Development of Islamic Iran () is the alliance of five Iranian minor political groups that issued electoral list for the 2016 legislative elections. The group which was established by Rouhani 2013 presidential campaigners, ...

supported Hosseinzadeh. In the second round,

supported Davatgari.

Controversy

On 27 April 2016, speaking in a meeting with

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s of

Maragheh Maragheh () is a city in the Central District (Maragheh County), Central District of Maragheh County, East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Maragheh is on the bank of ...

at the city's Pasdaran square, he called himself ''soldier of the

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'' and said: "Do not vote for

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s. I'm not afraid of them. I'll bring them to you the way you can

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them...". "No one has the guts to say these things hat I'm saying, becausehe will be given the hell, but I will take the the 'sic''officials' pants off. No one can't say a word to me, because they know that anyone who breaks the law, will give him hell...", "Let them kill us, they kill eand someone will replace me. Let them eat

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!", he added. The markings was filmed with cellphones and vent viral on social media after he was elected. Funeral of Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh 02

Death

At 5:45 am, 7 May 2016, Hosseinzadeh died in a

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while driving his Peugeot Pars on the Qazvin–Zanjan road en route from his hometown to

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. According to Iranian Traffic Police officials, the car overturned because "the driver was sleepy". The other four passengers survived the accident.

References

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