Ashraf Gilani

Seyed Ashrafedin Hosseini Gilani (Persian: سید اشرف‌الدین حسینی گیلانی) (1870–1934) was a combatant poet in Iran's constitutional revolution and the editor of the Nasim-e-Shomal (English: Northern Breeze ), a short-lived newspaper that used poems and satire to comment on the political and social situation of Iran at the time.

It was in 1906 while living in Rasht (north of Iran) that he got to know the leaders of the constitutional revolution and started publishing the weekly newspaper, Nasim-e Shomal.

After the bombardment and dissolution of the parliament by Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Ashrafedin fled to Eshtehard, in the suburb of capital Tehran.

A few months later when he returned to Rasht he became influenced by the leaders of the Social-Democrats of the Caucasus.

As it was announced in his newspaper, Nasim-e Shomal, Ashrafedin died on 20 March 1934 in Tehran.

This photo was taken the day Ashrafedin was arrested
The grave of Ashrafedin