Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (died 1979)

Habib Elghanian

20th-century Iranian Jewish businessman

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. On 9 May 1979, Elghanian was executed by firing squad…