Hassan Sane'i

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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[1].

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[2][3][4][5].

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  1. ^ PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM, 1994: STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM OVERVIEW
  2. ^ World: Middle East, Rushdie death bounty raised, BBC, 12 October 1998
  3. ^ http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/mde13.htm
  4. ^ IN THE NAME OF ALLAH: DECEPTION FROM TEHRAN AND THE CASE OF SALMAN RUSHDIE American Atheists
  5. ^ Iran Offers a Higher Reward For Assassination of Rushdie New York Times

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