Hassan Sane'i

Hojatoleslam Hassan Sane'i is a governmental official of Iran who is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He is also the president of the 15-Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation.^[1]

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.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References and notes

^ PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
^ World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised, BBC, 12 October 1998
^ http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/mde13.htm
^ IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE American Atheists
^ Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie New York Times

External links

The World Outraged by Prize Hike to Kill Rushdie 12 February 1997

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