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Hassan Sane'i

Hassan Sane'i

Iranian cleric (1934–2023)

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]

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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]

References and notes

  1. [1]
    "BBC News | Middle East | Analysis: Why the Rushdie affair continues".
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    PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
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    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.
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    World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised, BBC, 12 October 1998
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    "Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Iran (the Islamic Republic of)". www.amnesty.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 1999.
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    IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE American Atheists
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    Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie New York Times
  8. [8]
    "آیت‌الله حسن صانعی درگذشت". ISNA. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.


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