Reza Radmanesh

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Reza Radmanesh (1905/1906–1983) was an Iranian physicist and communist politician who led the Tudeh Party of Iran.

Born in Lahijan into a Gilak upper‑class family, he helped local Jangalis as a teenager and joined the Socialist Party while studying at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, where he met Taghi Arani, and returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three, for which he was imprisoned for five years.

Radmanesh played a key role in the Tudeh Party, serving on its central committee, heading its youth wing, and acting as parliamentary leader before becoming the party’s first secretary in 1948. He was a member of parliament for Lahijan from March 7, 1944 to March 12, 1946.

He died in Leipzig, East Germany, in 1983.