Ayatollah Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr

…by those of his father-in-law, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, founder of the Islamic Daʿwah Party, who in 1980 was executed for his opposition to Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein.

…was the young and charismatic Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. The regime cracked down on the Shiʿi movement with great ferocity, and hundreds were executed, some 10,000 were imprisoned, and tens of thousands were driven across the border into Iran. In April 1980 Saddam ordered the execution of Sadr and his…