News and information regarding the execution of Major General Ali Neshat, son of Ahmad, was obtained from an Abdorrahman Boroumand Center interviews conducted with his daughter on January 31, 2021 and May 11, 2021 (ABC interview), three electronic forms submitted to the Boroumand Center on February 9, 2006, December 7, 2007, and October 20, 2009, by persons who knew him. Additional information about this case was obtained from Shirin Neshat’s memoirs in a website named after General Ali Neshat, and from Kayhan newspaper (January 24, and February 1, 1979; January-February 1979; March 27, and April 11, and 12, 1979); Ettela’at newspaper (April 11, 1979); Ayandegan newspaper (April 12, 1979); and ISNA (February 8, 2015). News of this execution was also published in Amnesty International’s February-March 1980 report. *
General Neshat was born in Tehran in 1923. Upon graduating from high school, and subsequently from the Military University, he began serving in the “Guard Javidan” or the Imperial Guard (literally meaning the “Eternal Guard”). He was married and had five children. He was fluent in English and French. He was also an accomplished athlete and had obtained a multitude of medals in fencing, shooting (marksmanship), high jump, equestrian sports, and swimming. General Neshat was Moslem and a Safi Alishah Dervish. (Shirin Neshat’s memoirs; Electronic form).
