Hassan Sane'i

Hojatoleslam Hassan Sane'i is a governmental official of Iran who is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.[1] He is also the president of the 15 Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation that was created in 1981.[2][3]

Ayatollah
Hassan Sane'i
حسن صانعی
Hassan Saane'i at his brother's funeral in 2020
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Assumed office
4 October 1989
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting)
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Personal details
Born1934
Nikabad, Isfahan

Sane'i is a fundamentalist who has called for the execution of Salman Rushdie and raised the bounty of the head of the latter for insulting Islam.[4][5][6][7]

He is brother of the reformist Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei.

References and notes
  1. "BBC News | Middle East | Analysis: Why the Rushdie affair continues".
  2. PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
  3. Ladier-Fouladi, Marie (2002). "Iranian Families between Demographic Change and the Birth of the Welfare State". Population. 57 (2): 361–370. doi:10.2307/3246613. JSTOR 3246613.
  4. World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised, BBC, 12 October 1998
  5. "Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Iran (the Islamic Republic of)". www.amnesty.org. Archived from the original on 1999-11-09.
  6. IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE American Atheists
  7. Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie New York Times


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