He was arrested and sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal shortly after the Iranian Revolution for charges including corruption, contacts with Israel and Zionism, and "friendship with the enemies of God", and was executed.
Был арестован и приговорен к смертной казни исламским революционным трибуналом вскоре после исламской революции за контакты с Израилем, сионизмом и «дружбу с врагами Бога», и был казнен.