Hadi Ghaffari
Hadi Ghaffari ( Persian هادی غفاری; * June 25, 1950 in Azarshahr ) is Mullah and Hodschatoleslam and the head of the Iranian Hezbollahi movement. He is accused, among other things, within the Islamic revolution to those already sentenced to death Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda have personally shot on 7 April 1979 with a gun in the neck, after which Hoveida fell and begged for the coup de grace. Iranians in exile accused him of serious human rights violations, which eventually led to criminal charges in 1980 for torturing opponents of the regime. However, he was able to defend himself successfully because he "only exercised retaliation in the sense of Islamic law". At the end of February 1982 he traveled to West Germany to inspect the Iranian embassy in Bonn and the Hamburg consulate. He was also allegedly seen in Western clothing on the opposite expressway during an attack on anti-government Iranian students on the Inter 1 student residence in Mainz on March 24, 1982. However, this information could not be confirmed.
literature
- Roy P. Mottahedeh: The Prophet's Mantle or the Life of a Persian Mullah between Religion and Politics . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-406-32289-1 .
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Ghaffari, Hadi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | هادی غفاری (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mullah and Hodschatoleslam and the head of the Iranian Hezbollahi movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Azarshahr |