Hamid Ashraf played a key role in consolidating the OIPFG as a militant armed organisation against the Shah's regime.

On February 8, 1971, the mountain guerrilla band of the group under the command of Ali Akbar Safaei Farahani launched an attack on the police station in Siahkal in northern Iran.

For the next five years, under his leadership the OIPFG solidified its underground network and expanded its operations including high profile assassinations of some military and security officers.

[1] After a long and elaborated planning by the Shah's secret police SAVAK on June 29, 1976, the safe house where he and a number of members of cadres of OIPFG were captured alive.

Two pamphlets written by Ashraf have been published: "A three-year Review", and "An Analysis of One Year of Urban and Mountain Guerrilla Warfare: How did the Siahkal Insurrection Begin?