Frood Fouladvand (6 December 1941-17 January 2007), born Fethullah Manouchehri, was an Iranian expatriate terrorist who founded the monarchist Tondar organization, which was responsible for several terrorist attacks in Iran. He disappeared in 2007, and was widely believed to have been murdered by Iranian intelligence.
Biography[]
Fethullah Manouchehri was born in Shaholeh, Lorestan, Iran on 6 December 1941, and he became a film actor, director, playwright, and screenwriter during the reign of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Manouchehri, who went by the stage name "Frood Fouladvand", went into exile in the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California. There, he became a monarchist political activist, and, after Reza Pahlavi rejected Fouladvand's invitation to head a monarchist group in exile, Fouladvand decided to found Tondar in 2004, advocating for the restoration of the Iranian monarchy with a new ruling dynasty. Fouladvand harshly criticized Islam and supported the overthrow of the Iranian theocracy, but he was abducted in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2007 and was presumably murdered by Iranian intelligence.