Honorific-Prefix: | Hojjatol Eslam |
Hassan Sane'i | |
Native Name: | حسن صانعی |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Office: | Member of Expediency Discernment Council |
Term Start: | 4 October 1989 |
Term End: | 21 July 2023 |
Appointer: | Ali Khamenei |
1Blankname: | Chairman |
1Namedata: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
Birth Place: | Nikabad, Iran |
Death Date: | 21 July 2023 (aged 89) |
Hassan Sane'i (1934 – 21 July 2023) was an Iranian government official who was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.[1] He was also the president of the 15 Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation that was created in 1981.[2] [3]
Sane'i was a fundamentalist who called for the execution of Salman Rushdie, raising a bounty for his insulting Islam.[4] [5] [6] [7]
Sane'i was the brother of the reformist Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei. He died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 89.[8]