Once upon time, Mostafa Chamran -Iranian scientist, holding Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics- was hired as the senior research staff scientist at Bell Laboratories and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
As the restless soul he was, he couldn’t stand a carefree life in the US and later became a leading of the Islamic revolutionary movements in the Middle East, organizing and training guerrillas and revolutionary forces in Algeria, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon.
After Islamic Revolution, he came back to Iran and was mysteriously killed in action, battling Iran-Iraq war on 1981.

Musa Sadr the Iranian-born Lebanese philosopher and prominent religious figure, was Chamran’s buddy in Lebanon. Chamran helped Musa Sadr and they together found the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon and fought alongside Amal guerrillas in the late 1970s.
Ṣadr was well known as a moderate, demanding that the Maronite Christians relinquish some of their power in favour of the Lebanese muslim community, but pursuing ecumenism and peaceful relations between the groups.
In August 1978, before Islamic Revolution in Iran, Musa Sadr and two other companions disappeared in an official trip to Libya.
They were never heard of again, though there’ve been hearsayes and unconvinsing reports suggesting he’s alive.
However, Chamran and Musa Sadr are not the only ones. Each time there’re similar examples in different countries of the Middle East. From Palestine to Lebanon, Iraq to Saudi Arabia, Egypt to Afghanistan, women or men, poets, writiers, politicians, artists and so on.
Whether directly by CIA, Mossad and whatever western secret service or indirectly via their puppets, everytime someone intelligent is working, writing or fighting for justice to heal the difficult life of people in the region, though moderate, something mysteriously happens. They’re ‘mysteriously’ assassinated, killed or kidnapped.
That’s where story of great men of the ME end up. Or maybe There’s not going to be an end for the story. Maybe “Great men never die” and “The End” is just to start from the beginning.
P.S: Has been cross posted on MEY

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It’s so interesting that most muslim countries start Ramadan all together. Inshallah it plants more friendship among our nations and bring us peace and justice..
Ramadan Mubarak to all, my dear muslim and non-muslim friends