Mohammad Reyshahri
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Early life and educationEdit
Reyshahri was born into a religious Persian family in Rey on 29 October 1946.<ref name=buchta>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=dean>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was educated in Qom and Najaf in the field of theology.<ref name=buchta/> He and his successor at the ministry of intelligence, Ali Fallahian, were alumni of the Haqqani School in Qom.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
Reyshahri began to involve himself in political activities in June 1963 during the religious revolts after Khomeini's famous speech in Qom.<ref name=buchta/> In 1967, he fled to Najaf and stayed there for a while. Upon his return to Iran, he was imprisoned.<ref name=buchta/> While incarcerated, he met Ali Khamenei, who later became supreme leader of Iran.<ref name="ABNA-20220326" /> Until the Iranian Revolution, he was banned from preaching.<ref name=buchta/>
After the victory of the revolution, Reyshahri served as Chief Judge of the Revolutionary Military Tribunal from 1979 to 1984, and was involved in investigating and purging the plotters of the Nojeh coup (which was planned for 8 July 1980 by supporters of Shapour Bakhtiar and was reported to Reyshahri by Saeed Hajjarian) as well as the Ghotbzadeh coup, which led to the execution of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and the removal of grand ayatollah Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari from being a marja by the Society of Teachers of the Qom Hawza.<ref>Nader Entessar, The Military and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran, inPost-Revolutionary Iran: edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manoucher Parvin, p. 64, 1988</ref><ref>Iranians Report Arrests In Alleged Coup Attempt, Washington Post, July 12, 1980</ref>
From 1984 to 1989, in Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi's cabinet,<ref name=bar09>Template:Cite journal</ref> Reyshahri served as the inaugural Minister of Intelligence and Security.<ref name="IQNA-obit" /> He played a major role in defining and expanding the Ministry's role and remit, collaborating especially with the intelligence services of North Korea, Syria, Libya and South Yemen, which supported Iran during its war with Iraq. Into his tenure also falls the case of Mehdi Hashemi. Reyshahri executed Hashemi two days ahead of schedule on 28 September 1987, so that Reyshahri would not need to follow a letter written by Ayatollah Khomeini on 28 September in which he informed Reyshahri that the sentence had been commuted to internal exile.<ref name=miriam>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Reyshahri was then appointed Prosecutor-General of Iran, serving from 1989 to 1991, and also became Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for the Clergy in 1990. He drafted the court's 47-article ordinance, which was subsequently passed in 1990.<ref name=miriam/> Before the Majlis elections in 1996, he established the Society for the Defence of the Values of the Islamic Revolution.<ref name=shah>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In 1991 Reyshahri was appointed "Representative on Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs" by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei placing him in charge of the new "Organization for Hajj and Pilgrimage". This independent entity was thereafter separate from the office responsible for endowments and charity, with Iranian law stating that "all of the Hajj's cultural, political, and outreach issues are under the exclusive authority of the Supreme Leader's Representative".<ref>Iran's Ideological Exploitation of the Hajj, Mehdi Khalaji, The Washington Institute, September 12, 2016</ref> He continued to hold that post at least until 2007.<ref name=mathaba>Template:Cite news</ref> He was the dean of the Dar Al Hadith Scientific Cultural Institute.<ref name=dean/> Reyshahri was also an unsuccessful presidential candidate in the election on 23 May 1997, which led to the presidency of Mohammad Khatami.<ref name=Daniel2012>Template:Cite book</ref> He finished in fourth place among the four candidates approved by the Guardian Council.<ref name="IDP">Template:Citation</ref>
In 2016, he also became a member of the Assembly of Experts.
Later lifeEdit
Reyshahri wrote more than 75 books on Islamic teachings,<ref name="IQNA-obit" /> and one of them, entitled The Wisdom of Christ, was translated and published in English in South Africa to mark the New Year in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Reyshahri died at a hospital in Tehran on 21 March 2022 at the age of 75.<ref name="IQNA-obit">Template:Cite news</ref> At the funeral on 23 March, Ali Khamenei described Reyshahri as "a benevolent person who served the people" and "always a source of blessings".<ref name="ABNA-20220326">Template:Cite news</ref>
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