Habib Elghanian

Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. On 9 May 1979, Elghanian was executed by firing squad in Tehran, Iran.

5 April 1912

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