Ahmad Kashani

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Ahmad Kashani
Born (1947-06-06) June 6, 1947
Tehran, Iran
Nationality Iranian
Political party
 Independent
Relatives Abol-Ghasem Kashani (Father)
Mahmoud Kashani (Brother)

Ahmad Kashani (born 23 December 1947 in Tehran), the last son of ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani, is an Iranian politician and construction engineer. He was the member of Iranian parliament from 1980 to 1986. He registered as a presidential candidate in 2013 Iranian presidential election election.[1][2] His nomination was rejected by Guardian Council.

Early life and Family

He was born on 23 December 1947 in Tehran, Iran.[citation needed] His father, Abol-Ghasem Kashani was a prominent Twelver Shia Muslim cleric and former chairman of the parliament. He is also younger brother of Mahmoud Kashani.[3]

Career

According to Trita Parsi's Treacherous Alliance, in early 1980 Kashani visited Israel to discuss arms sales and military cooperation regarding Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. This resulted in an arms deal (a shipment of F4 Phantom tyres and other weapons, the beginning of Operation Seashell) and the Ayatollah Khomeini's permission for large numbers of Iranian Jews to leave Iran, including thousands who left via bus to Pakistan and then via air to Austria, before heading to the US or Israel.[4]

Kashani was a deputy for Natanz when he was one of several arrested in 1986 on charges of conspiring with Mehdi Hashemi. Details of the alleged links with Hashemi were not provided.[3] Hashemi and one other were executed, while the rest, including Kashani, were pardoned or received light sentences.[5]

References

  1. ↑ سید احمد مصطفوی کاشانی کاندیدای ریاست جمهوری یازدهم شد
  2. ↑ ثبت نام کننده گان روز آخر
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bahman Baktiari (1996), Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics, University Press of Florida, p137
  4. ↑ Trita Parsi (2007), Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, Yale University Press, p95
  5. ↑ Ervand Abrahamian (1999). Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21623-5. Retrieved 13 September 2013. , p166
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