Mohammad Zohari

Born in Tonekabon, he was the first son of Abdollah Khaan Zohari Khalatbari, an activist in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution who had received the honorific title of "Motamed-ol-Soltan Zaigham-ol-Mamalek"[1] from Ahmad Shah Qajar.

In 1931, due to his father's disagreement with Reza Shah Pahlavi, the family was exiled to Malayer, and later to Shiraz.

After graduation, Zohari worked as high school and university teacher, and as a journalist for Ferdowsi Magazine, Fokahi and some others for some years before he became a government employee and worked in various positions such as head of media and PR for the Ministry of Education and vice-director of the National Library of Iran.

The experience to leave his home by force for the second time, once when he was a child and once as an adult, was very difficult for Zohari, and made he decide he would not write anymore.

Due to his great love for Iran, Zohari returned to Tehran in 1992, but during some legal straggling he died of a heart attack in 1995.