Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei ( fa, رحمت‌الله مقدم مراغه‌ای) was an Iranian politician. A co-founder of the Iranian Writers' Association (IWA), he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing

the Shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

Career

Following the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the

Islamic Republican Party The Islamic Republican Party (IRP; fa, حزب جمهوری اسلامی, Ḥezb-e Jomhūrī-e Eslāmī, also translated Islamic Republic Party) formed in 1979 to assist the Iranian Revolution and Ayatollah Khomeini establish theocracy in Iran. ...

. He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for

espionage Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information ( intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tang ...

. He worked as an

informant An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a “snitch”) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law-enforcement world, where informant ...

for the

Central Intelligence Agency The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...

(CIA), under the

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"SDProbe". According to C. Emery, he was a valuable

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for the agency due to his position as a governor and the connections he had among influential figures.

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Governors of East Azerbaijan Province Members of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution Iranian writers Muslim People's Republic Party politicians People from Maragheh People from Miandoab Deputies of Miandoab, Shahin Dezh and Takab Date of birth unknown Possibly living people Exiles of the Iranian Revolution American spies Iranian revolutionaries Members of the 20th Iranian Majlis People convicted of espionage in Iran People convicted of spying for the United States Members of the Iranian Committee for the Defense of Freedom and Human Rights Iranian Writers Association members {{Iran-politician-stub