With his passing the international communist movement lost one of its most remarkable and long-serving leaders. Comrade Khavari selflessly dedicated the whole of his adult life to the party, the international struggle and the cause of socialism. He gave everything he had in whatever circumstance he was placed — working underground for the outlawed party, serving time as a long-term political prisoner of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and in decades-long exile from the post-1979 theocratic dictatorship, from which he was never to return. In an interview with Jung Welte in August 200...