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80 Years of Struggle: Farewell, Comrade Khavari!
Remembering a titan of Tudeh Party of Iran and the international communist movement
Ali Khavari

ON March 19 2021, just three days before his 98th birthday, the first secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran for the previous 37 years, Ali Khavari, suffered a cardiac arrest and died at home in Berlin. 

With his passing the international communist movement lost one of its most remarkable and long-serving leaders. 

Comrade Khavari selflessly dedicated the whole of his adult life to the party, the international struggle and the cause of socialism. 

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