Majid Sharif: (Born 1950, Murdered 1998) was anIraniantranslator and journalist who was one of the victims of theintelligence plan for eliminating the opposition intellectuals known as Chain murders of Iran. He was a moderate leftist political analyst and his articles criticizing the 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. Sharif left Iran in 1984 and lived in France for 12 years. He came back to Iran in 1995. Death: In November 1998, Sharif left his home for a jog and never returned.[3]On November 18, 1998 he was found on the side of a road inTehranand identified by his mother in the coroner's office six days later on November 24, 1998.Based on confessions of one the agents of intelligence service, he was killed by injections of Chloride Potassium.