Hassan Sane'i Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: BBC News | Middle East | Analysis: Why the Rushdie affair continues.
  2. http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_94/statespon.html#Iran PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
  3. Iranian Families between Demographic Change and the Birth of the Welfare State. 10.2307/3246613. 3246613. Population. 2002. 57. 2. 361–370. Ladier-Fouladi. Marie.
  4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/191724.stm World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised
  5. Web site: Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Iran (the Islamic Republic of) . www.amnesty.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/19991109054228/http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/mde13.htm . 9 November 1999.
  6. http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/rushdie3.htm IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE
  7. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D61F3DF930A35752C1A964958260 Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie
  8. News: آیت‌الله حسن صانعی درگذشت . 21 July 2023 . ISNA . 21 July 2023.