Controversial author and political activist who separated from Mosaddegh / From fiery speeches to separation from Mosaddegh; the story of a man who did not last in politics

According to Khabaronline News Agency, citing the Center for Islamic Revolution Documents; Makki belonged to the generation born between two worlds: a world where “Qajar” still breathed under people’s breath, and a world where “Reza Shah” was driving it relentlessly towards order and modernization. His youth began in Meybod, but fate took him where few would have imagined: from Reza Shah’s nascent air force to the railway administration, from city council sessions to the national political arena. It seemed wherever there was an “event,” Makki was there too.

But what distinguished him from many of his peers was not just his presence in the heart of politics; it was his rebellious desire to register and record. A man whose speeches made parliament tremble; if he wrote a book, it became a thousand pages long; and if he reached a sensitive event, he would write it so accurately and detailed that the reader felt as if they should see themselves in the scene, even if the volume of the book exceeded usual endurance. Hossein Makki was an author whom politics made famous, but writing made him immortal. On the anniversary of his death, we reviewed his life and works, especially his ‘History of Twenty Years of Iran’.