{"id":"habib-elghanian","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/habib-elghanian","language":"en","name":"Habib Elghanian","name_en":"Habib Elghanian","name_ne":null,"description":"Iranian Jewish businessman (1909–1979)","headline":"Iranian Jewish businessman (1909–1979)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. He was arrested and sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal shortly after the Iranian Revolution for charges including corruption, contacts with Israel and Zionism, and \"friendship with the enemies of God\", and was executed by firing squad on 9 May 1979 in Tehran, Iran. He was the first and last Jew and businessman to be executed by the Council of the Islamic Revolution.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"5 April 1909","date":"1909-04-05"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tehran","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3616"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"9 May 1979","date":"1979-05-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Tehran","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3616"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Iran","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"philanthropist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12362622"},{"text":"industrialist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6606110"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib_Elghanian","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Habib Elghanian born?","a":"Habib Elghanian was born on 5 April 1909 in Tehran."}],"related":[{"name":"Anousheh Ansari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/anousheh-ansari"},{"name":"Mehdi Karroubi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mehdi-karroubi"},{"name":"Babak Zanjani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/babak-zanjani"},{"name":"Fatemeh Pahlavi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fatemeh-pahlavi"},{"name":"Mohammad Reza Rahimi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mohammad-reza-rahimi"},{"name":"Bijan Namdar Zangeneh","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bijan-namdar-zangeneh"},{"name":"Omid Kordestani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/omid-kordestani"},{"name":"Dara Khosrowshahi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dara-khosrowshahi"},{"name":"Abdul Reza Pahlavi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-reza-pahlavi"},{"name":"Farhad Moshiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/farhad-moshiri"},{"name":"Dariush Mostafavi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dariush-mostafavi"},{"name":"Baba Ali","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baba-ali"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/habib-elghanian-d2b3d8d264.jpg","width":425,"height":566,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Reubenzadeh","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HabibElghanian.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Habib Elghanian","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib_Elghanian","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3490187","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490187","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: HabibElghanian.jpg by Reubenzadeh (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HabibElghanian.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Habib Elghanian, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: HabibElghanian.jpg — Reubenzadeh, Public domain.","cite":"\"Habib Elghanian\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/habib-elghanian. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T02:41:11Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/habib-elghanian","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/habib-elghanian","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/habib-elghanian?lang=ne"}}