Morteza Yazdi (Persian: مرتضی یزدی) was an Iranian surgeon and communist politician.

[4] Following his return to Iran, he became involved with the Communist Party of Persia and subsequently was arrested as one of "The Fifty-Three".

[7] He ran for a Tehran seat in the 1944 parliamentary election to no avail, garnering 4,719 out of some 41,000 votes (about 11.5%).

[6] Yazdi was named as the health minister in the Coalition government of Ahmad Qavam in 1946.

After his release, he was no longer active within the party though he remained on friendly terms with them as late as 1979.