How Khomeini turned the Islamic Revolution into a dictatorship, Mohammad Ja’fari, Jul 7, 2019
Mohammad Ja’fari was the managing editor and the director on the daily newspaper “Engelab Eslami”, established by Mr. Bani Sadr, in June 1979, a few months before Bani Sadr became the first Iranian president. Mr. Ja’fari was active in the paper from the beginning until his arrest in June 1981.
He was born in 1944 in the village of Marbin in the county of Ardestan, Isfahan Province. After graduating from high school and spending two years in the Literacy Corps (Sepah Danesh), he became a government teacher and taught for two years in the northern part of Tehran (Oshan -Fasham). He left Iran in 1969 for Germany where he earned a Master’s Degree in Chemistry.
While outside the country he joined the Union of Islamic Student Associations and became close to Mr. Bani Sadr. He returned to Iran right after Ayatollah Khomeini, a few days before the revolution.