Hassan Abbasi

Hassan Abbasi (2016)

Hassan Abbasi ( Persian حسن عباسی) is one of the chief strategists of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) and is the head of the Iranian Center for Doctrine-Strategic Studies of the Revolutionary Guards . He is considered the spokesman for Hezbollah in Iran .

Life

Abbasi was active in the student movement before the Islamic Revolution in Iran. After the Islamic Revolution he was a co-founder and active member of the student movement called "Students Who Follow the Line of the Imam" ( Daneschdschuyane Chate Emam ), which was blamed for storming the US embassy in Tehran .

Abbasi is currently a member of the Revolutionary Guard's secret service apparatus and its strategic coordinator. Among other things, he is considered the chief strategist of the al-Quds unit , a special force within the Revolutionary Guard, responsible for intelligence operations outside of Iran.

Utterances

During the tenure of the former President Mohammad Chātami, Abbasi criticized the then head of the Iranian secret service VEVAK , Ali Younesi , in relation to the so-called Arazel Obash youth gangs and organized crime in Iran as well as the lax approach of those responsible in the fight against organized trafficking in women between Iran and Iran the neighboring Arab Gulf States . Among other things, he threatened the Gulf States with the freezing of accounts and the interference of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards through secret service operations to curb the trafficking in women.

Meanwhile, he also criticized nepotism in the country and accused religious dignitaries and well-known clerics within Iran such as Ali Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni and Hassan Rouhani of self-enrichment.

Reactions

The reformists within Iran celebrated Abbasi's critical remarks as did the ultra-conservative Hezbollahi. The reactions of the Iranian journalists living in exile remained divided, however, as this type of criticism was seen as purely mood-raising within the leadership of the Iranian system. According to opposition members living in exile, Abbasi is not his real name, but Yadollah Ghazvini . According to this, its identity is said to have been kept secret by the Iranian secret service VEVAK for security reasons, which speaks for its currently important role for the regime .

Web links

• A second zero hour in Iran? Conservatives hope for a “messianic society” ( Memento of May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) MEMRI , August 29, 2005
• Clemens Wergin: Doped with oil Tagesspiegel , April 19, 2006
• Iran crisis - allegedly 40,000 suicide bombers RP-Online.de, April 16, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Böll Foundation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 103 kB) Iranreport No. 05-2006, p. 5.