Abar Radi (Persian: اکبر رادی; 31 October 1939 – 26 December 2007) was an Iranian playwright. He was born on October 2, 1939 in the city of Rasht, completed his studies at the University of Tehran in social sciences. He published his first story, Rain, in 1959. The 68-year-old playwright whose works have been compared with those of Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen died in a Tehran hospital on December 24, 2007.