Mohammad Bahmanbeigi
In October 28, 1954, Bahmanbeigi was chief of tribal education of the American program of Point Four in Shiraz, Iran. According to the confidential classified documents of the embassy of the United States in Tehran, Robert L. Funseth, American Vice Consul in Tabriz, reported to Bryant Buckingham American Consul in Isfahan:… more
Born in the Qashqai Tribal Confederation and in the household of Mahmoud Khan Kalantar from the clan of Bahmanbeiglou and the Amaleh Tribe, Mohammad Bahmanbeigi began his life in 1921 and in a tent between Lar and Firuzabad during the migration of his tribe. He did not see or hear anything but gunshots and horse neighing when he was born. He spent his childhood living in Larestan in winter and Semirom in summer and did not spend even one single night in town or a normal town house. He was taught literacy by his family’s private secretary, Mirza Javad when he was a child. “My father hosted a stranger man from Shahr Reza, Esfahan and that man taught me and my sister basic things” he writes…. more