Morteza Niknejad


Morteza Niknejad was an Iranian Shia Twelver who was a member of Islamic Coalition Party. Niknejad was born in 1942 in the south of Tehran in a religious family; he was a religious person since his period of adolescence, too. Morteza passed his primary-school, later on, commenced to work at the market --as a Galesh seller.
Niknejad got acquainted with Reza Saffar-Harandi and Mohammad Bokharaei, and altogether got familiar with Islamic Coalition Party. He was practical supporter of Mohammad-Bokharaei. Afterwards, he was arrested, and finally was executed by the regime of the Shah on 16 June 1965 beside his three colleagues, namely: Mohammad Bokharaei, Sadeq Amani and Reza Saffar-Harandi, whose accusation was "participation in the assassinating of Hassan Ali Mansur.