Ali Tehrani

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Ali Tehrani around 2013

Ali Tehrani (born April 25, 1926 near Tehran ) is an Iranian sheikh , ayatollah and dissident and brother-in-law of the head of state Ali Khamenei .

As a “favorite student” of Ruhollah Khomeini , he was familiar with his theses on the “ Islamic State ”. After the unrest in Iran in June 1963 , Khomeini was exiled to Iraq, while Tehrani kept in touch with his teacher in his exile in Najaf . Tehrani meanwhile continued his studies in Mashhad , with Ayatollah Milani. While Khomeini published his most important work " Velayat-e faqih " on the Islamic state in 1971 , Tehrani wrote about Islamic economy ( Eqtesad-e eslami , 1974). In 1979 he was elected to the assembly of experts to draft the new Iranian constitution.

Photocopy of Ali Tehrani's identity card

He refused to participate in government after the Islamic revolution . He himself advocates the status with the system of constitutional monarchy and supervision by the clergy. He became one of the system's harshest critics:

“A mastermind who unites all strings of power in his hands. The Radjai government is the hand of Beheschti, the parliament is the word Beheshtis, the militant clergy is the foot of Beheschtis and the scholars of Qom are the brain of Beheschtis. "

- Ali Tehrani on Mohammad Beheschti

“What you are asking of me [joining the government] is a crime. What do I understand by an economic, finance or oil ministry? Experts have to be called in here. But you drove them out of Iran with your terror. "

- Ali Tehrani to Ahmad Khomeini

Because of his criticism of the political system in Iran , he was sentenced to eight months in prison in 1981 and then placed under house arrest in Mashhad. In March 1984 he fled to Iraq . His wife Badri Hussein Chamenei, sister Ali Chamenei , and his five children followed him in May 1985. On his return to Iran in 1995 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for alleged collaboration with the enemy Iraq. Mahmud Tehrani, a son of Ali Tehrani, lives in Paris .

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Mohsen Kadivar .
  2. ↑ He is believed to have attempted suicide in Evin Prison on June 3, 2001 , but was rescued. See: payvand.com
  3. ↑ The English language Wikipedia writes without paper that he should have been released from prison in 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ali-tehrani.com
  2. ↑ a b c d Ayatollah Ali Tehrani . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1984 ( online ).
  3. ↑ 1979 Assembly of Experts for the Constitution Election. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) princeton.edu
  4. ↑ AFP of June 26, 1981
  5. ^ Sister of Iran's President Flees to Husband in Iraq . nytimes.com, May 3, 1985; Retrieved February 1, 2013
  6. ↑ Iran - Chronicle of the 20th Century . ISBN 978-3-8334-7332-6 .
  7. ↑ Sheikh Tehrani Arrested, Placed In Deliberately Mr. Nouri's Cell . ( Memento of March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved January 31, 2013
  8. ↑ rferl.org , accessed February 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Tehrani, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tehrani, Khani-Arangeh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH near Tehran