Hassan Sane'i

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 [ [http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_94/statespon.html#Iran PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW ] ] .

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 [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/191724.stm World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised] , BBC, 12 October 1998] [http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/mde13.htm] [ [http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/rushdie3.htm IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE] "American Atheists"] [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D61F3DF930A35752C1A964958260 Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie] "New York Times"] .

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* [http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/boi/05930213.97 The World Outraged by Prize Hike to Kill Rushdie] 12 February 1997


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