title: Majid Sharif
text: # Majid Sharif
  
  Majid Sharif (Persian: مجید شریف; January/February 1951– November 19, 1998) was an Iranian translator and journalist who was one of the victims of the Chain murders of Iran. He was a follower of the late Islamist modernist leftist theoretician Ali Shariati. Articles by him criticizing Iranian government policies appeared in a monthly magazine, Iran-e Farda (Iran of Tomorrow), which was closed down by court order on December 5, 1998.
  
  ## Education
  
  Sharif graduated from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and was a student in Physics Department of University of California at Los Angeles before his return to Iran.
  
  ## Death
  
  In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned. On November 19, 1998 he was found on the side of a road in Tehran and identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 25, 1998. The official cause of his death was given as heart failure.
  
  