Shahrokh Meskoub (Persian: شاهرخ مسکوب) (January 11, 1924[1] in Babol, Iran – April 12, 2005, in Paris, France), was an Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor.
[citation needed] His activism attracted the attention of the Pahlavi-era security forces, which led to serial arrests and eventual imprisonment.
He later said that the memory of his mother and of his close friend Morteza Keyvan, who had been executed in the same year as Meskoob's arrest and imprisonment, had helped him endure.
[citation needed] Meskoob was forced to leave Iran permanently following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, after he wrote critically of the new regime in Ayandegan newspaper.
[citation needed] Meskoob was the first Iranian scholar who worked on Ferdowsi's Shahnameh on the basis of the principles of modern literary criticism.