Ehsan Tabari (1917–1989) was an Iranian intellectual, a founding member and theoretician of the Pro-Soviet Tudeh party.Tabari was born in 1917 in Sari, Mazandaran, Iran. Tabari was fluent in eight languages, he wrote and translated poetry and did research in linguistics.He returned to Iran in 1979 after the overthrow of the Shah, but was arrested in 1983 along with other leaders of the Tudeh Party. In May 1984 he confessed on television for spying for the USSR and other crimes.