He was born in 1943 in Tehran to a middle-class family. He was interested in reading books and poetry since childhood. In the early 1960s, he became acquainted with Samadi Bahrangi and Behrooz Dehghani in Tehran.
During those years, some of Nabdel's poems were published under the title of Okhtay in some publications and magazines such as Adina and Ark in Tehran. At the same time, Nabdel wrote a study on “Azerbaijan and the National Question” which was secretly published among the activists who were preparing for the struggle for survival against the monarchy.
Nabdel went to Tehran to continue his studies and activities and began studying law at the University of Law in the judicial department. He became acquainted with Kurdish students at the university. He has traveled through the mountains and plains of Kurdistan and has been deeply affected by the beauty of Kurdistan and the way people live.
Nabdel was one of the founders of the first urban armed struggle group in Tehran during the regime of Hama Reza Shah. In March 1971, Ali Reza Nabdel and Javad Salahi were writing the first statements of the Martyrs' Guerilla Organization on the wall in the Pamenari neighborhood of Tehran when a retired army officer saw them and started shouting. When Salahi saw that they were surrounded, he shot himself to avoid being caught alive and died immediately. Ali Reza gets back on the motorcycle to get away, but his motorcycle falls into a well and suffers a hit to the head. He shot himself, but was wounded and taken to the police hospital. The regime had identified nine of the organization's initial members, published their photographs in newspapers, hung them on trees and walls in Tehran, and offered a reward of 100,000 Iranian Rials for finding each of them alive.
Nabdel undergoes surgery to recover and confess under torture. In order to protect his friends and not reveal their names under torture, he once threw himself from the third floor of the municipal hospital and his wounds reopened. This time he survived, his wounds were sewn and they continued to torture him.
Nabdel and eight others were eventually shot.[1]