Amir Hussein Heshmat Saran (1960 ~ 6 March 2009) was the founder of the Iran National Unity Front political party.

In 2004, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Heshmat Saran to eight years in prison for his political activities, including participation in Iran Students' Day demonstrations, and organizing the Iran National Unity Front, (jebhe-yeh etehaad-e melli), an illegal opposition group which advocated for a more democratic Iran.

[1] At the beginning of his detention, Heshmat Saran published articles which described his experience inside the jail and with the help of members of the Iran National Unity Front, this information was distributed to websites and Iranian satellite channels in the United States.

[3] His health continued to deteriorate and in November 2008 he "fell unconscious for about six hours" in Gohardasht Prison.

According to his wife, "the medical specialist who treated him told me he had brain hemorrhaging, and a lung infection which had spread throughout his body, that he should have been brought in sooner.