Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
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Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was an Iranian politician who served as a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and was foreign minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Irani
Ghotbzadeh in 1980
Ghotbzadeh defending himself at trial
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
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Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, also spelled Shariat-Madari, was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a cri
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
…intervened. On 8 April 1982, he was arrested along with a group of army officers and clerics (including a son-in-law of the religious leader Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari), all accused of plotting the assassination of Ayatollah Khomeini and overthrow of the Islamic Republic. Hujjat al-Islam Mohammad Reyshahri, the chief…
Shariatmadari during the 60's
Kazem Shariatmadari and Ayatollah Khomeini