Born in 1937 in Mashad (Iran) and grew up in Tehran, Tabriz, Orumiyeh, Isfahan and Rasht. Finished the high school in Tehran and entered at Tehran University in 1955 to study pharmacology. Graduating in 1961, he went straight into the military service as a lieutenant.
It was his father who introduced the pleasures of calligraphy and painting to him. He took courses at different schools and studies during the same time that he completed his formal education.
He started illustrating as early as 1949 and joined the press as a political cartoonist when he was only 16. in 1956 he was prevented from entering the only Fine Arts School in Iran, under the military service regulations. Nevertheless, he kept himself busy at painting most of the time.
During the 1970's he illustrated school books and paperback books, before leaving for Belgium to study animation on a grant of I.I.D.C.Y.A.
In 1974 he was the first to establish an animation school in Iran, shortly after that he founded animation courses at the former Farabi University (University of Fine Arts) where he began to give lectures.
During 1970's he was busy making 10 animated films, illustrating, and writing a dozen of storybooks. His films were screened on an international scale and his books were displayed on international fairs, winning a dozen of awards.
He completed his last war fiction "Superpowers" in war-torn Tehran under the Iraq missile attacks. In the same year he was commissioned by a Finnish Company to make "Sindbad Tale" but the film made him leave for Finaland and later for Holleywood. He returned to Iran in 1991.
Different animation bodies have his membership including ASIFA board of directors, ASIFA (since 1971) and ASIFA Iran among others. He is a founder and president of ASIFA-Iran (since 1986). He has set up exhibitions aboard Iran, California (USA, oil painting), DEANZA College (USA), USC and UCLA (USA), among many others.
He is in the process of preparing an illustration (titled "Mulla Naserddin", and outstanding satirical figure of Iranian folktale), writing a few books and making an animated film.