Hassan Rahimpour-Azghadi ( fa, حسن رحیم‌پور ازغدی, born 1964/1965) is an Iranian conservative public speaker, conspiracy theorist and ideologue. He has been a member of Iran's

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since 2003.

Early life and career

Rahimpour-Azghadi was born in 1964 or 1965. He has studied at the Qom Seminary, although he does not wear clerical clothing. He edited a journal of the Feyziyeh School named ''Ketab-e naghd'' (), and published a special issue in 2000 dedicated to a critical look at feminism. Supreme Leader

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

appointed him as a member of the

in 2003, and a member of the Council of Representatives of the Supreme Leader in Universities in 2007. Rahimpour-Azghadi regularly makes public speeches which are aired by Iran's state television on a weekly basis.

Views and reception

He is considered among the new generation of fundamentalist public speakers who, without an in-depth religious education, tries to mix conspiracy theories with theological assertions in order to theorize the establishment in Iran and its policies and provide it with a Shi'ite ideological justification. Rahimpour-Azghadi is also regarded as a leading advocate of the "ruling clergy" and the "governmental-Shi'ism" discourse in Iran, a political reading of Islam which intends to manipulate and control seminaries, in contrast to the Shia traditional orthodoxy which favors independence from the government. Ali Mirsepassi, a professor at the

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, describes Rahimpour-Azghadi as "one of the current arch-hardline ideologues of the Islamic Republic overnment of Iran. According to

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, he advises

on social issues. Since he has not published any academic works, his credentials has been questioned by critics, to which he has responded "I have a postdoc in book reading". In 2012, he claimed that Western countries are alarmed about him and a joint team of

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intelligence agencies wanted to assassinate him. Politically, Rahimpour-Azghadi is a conservative and was a supporter of

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

during his administration, describing him as "a guerrilla committed to the front of the poor people of the world" who led "the most popular government in Iran's history". He is also a staunch enemy of the Reformists and has condmened presidents

Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to ...

and

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

References

External links

Official Website
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