Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei

Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei (Persian: رحمت‌الله مقدم مراغه‌ای) was an Iranian politician. A co-founder of the Iranian Writers' Association (IWA),^[1] he briefly served as a member of the parliament in the early 1960s, but was ousted for criticizing the Shah.

Rahmatollah Moghaddam Maraghei
Governor of East Azerbaijan Province
In office December 1979
In office February 1979 – June 1979
Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution
In office 15 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
Constituency	East Azerbaijan Province
Majority	458,733 (51%)
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office 22 February 1961 – 9 May 1961
Constituency	Miandoab
Personal details
Born	Tehran
Died	Tehran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Radical Movement of Iran
Other political affiliations	Muslim People's Republic Party (1979)

Career

Following the Iranian Revolution, he was elected to the constituent assembly and was considered among the opposition bloc to the Islamic Republican Party.^[2] He went into hiding and fled the country after he was prosecuted for espionage.^[3][4][5]

He worked as an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under the cryptonym "SDProbe". According to C. Emery, he was a valuable asset for the agency due to his position as a governor and the connections he had among influential figures.^[6]