Majid Sharif

Majid Sharif مجید شریف
Born	1950
Died	November 1998 Tehran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	translator, journalist

Majid Sharif (1950–1988) Persian: مجید شریف‎‎, was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati. Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.

Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.

In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned. On November 18, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 24, 1998. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.

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