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
President of 15-Khordad Foundation

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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/279493.stm
  2. PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
  3. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/pop_1634-2941_2002_num_57_2_18397
  4. World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised, BBC, 12 October 1998
  5. https://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/mde13.htm
  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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