Iranian Newspaper Publishers (People) - Saeed Hajjarian, Hadi Khamenei, Mohsen Sazegara (Paperback)

Chapters: Saeed Hajjarian, Hadi Khamenei, Mohsen Sazegara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Saeed Hajjarian (Persian:, born 1954 in Shiraz) is an Iranian intellectual, prominent journalist, pro-democracy activist and university lecturer. He has been an intelligence official, a member of Tehran's city council, and advisor to president Mohammad Khatami. In March, 2000, he was shot in the head by an assailant and severely disabled, an act many believe was in retaliation for his help in uncovering the chain murders of Iran and his significant help to the Iranian reform movement in general. Saeed Hajjarian studied Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering (Fanni)Tehran University and was a young Iranian revolutionary during the 1979 Iranian Revolution and was among the students who took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. After the revolution, he got involved with the formation of the intelligence apparatus of the newly founded Islamic Republic. Through the 1980s, he was working in the Ministry of Intelligence, where his positions included Vice Minister of Political Affairs. In the late 1980s, he left the ministry, and established an Institute for Strategic Studies under the presidency. That was where he played an important role in creating a new discourse based on democracy and rule of law for his generation of revolutionaries. In 1977 Hajjarian was enrolled in Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program but then he shifted to political sciences and received his doctoral qualification from Tehran University in 2003. When Mohammad Khatami was elected President in 1997, he appointed Hajjarian his political advisor. In 1999, Hajjarian was elected to the city council of Tehran in Iran's first city elections after the 1979 revolution. He was ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=277383