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 ipedia.com: Sadegh Khalkhali Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali was one of the hardline Shia clerics of the early years of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Khalkhali is famous for his many orders of hanging of Iranian officers of the Pahlavi era, specially Amir Abbas Hoveida, a former prime minister, and General Nassiri, a former head of SAVAK.
Khalkhali was appointed for two terms in parliament as a member for Qom, and was removed from power upon Khomeini's death in 1989.
www.ipedia.com /sadegh_khalkhali.html   (287 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Khalkhali, Iran Watcher
As head of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts, Hojatoleslam Sadegh Khalkhali was in charge of overseeing the cases of the Shah's generals and ministers.
Khalkhali said he and three other generals had gone against the forces of Islam and were to be executed.
Khalkhali fell out of favor under the suspicion of corruption in the early 1980's.
www.iranian.com /Opinion/2003/December/Khalkhali   (731 words)

  
 [FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great :: View topic - "Hanging judge", Khalkhali, dies in Iran
Khalkhali was an MP for the Shiite holy city of Qom in central Iran for more than a decade, but his parliamentary candidacy was rejected in 1991 by the Council of Guardians legislative watchdog.
Khalkhali was appointed president of the Islamic Revolution Court in February, 1979, shortly after the revolution deposed the U.S.-backed Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Mohammed Sadeq was born in 1926 to Mohammed Sadeq Givi, a farmer, and Mashadi Khanum Um-Elbanin, in the village of Givi near Khalkhal in the north-western province of Azerbaijan.
www.activistchat.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1481&sid=4efd2707298e309842e6d2d566c780ad   (4197 words)

  
 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sadegh Ghotbzadeh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sadegh Ghotbzadeh.
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (صادق قطب‌زاده;‎ 1936–September 15, 1982) was Iranian Foreign Minister (November 30, 1979–August, 1980) during Iran hostage crisis.
He was a supporter of National Front of Iran and was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini when he was in exile in France.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Sadegh-Ghotbzadeh.html   (280 words)

  
 Sadegh Khalkhali -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
(A high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well) Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali (صادق خلخالی in (The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) Persian) (1927?
Khalkhali was elected as representative of (Click link for more info and facts about Qom) Qom in (A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)) Parliament for two terms, and was removed from power upon Khomeini's death in 1989.
He died at the age of 76 after a heart problem.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sadegh_khalkhali.htm   (169 words)

  
 Former Hanging Judge of Iran Upheaval Now Backs Reformers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khalkhali was the Islamic revolution's Robespierre, the grim avenger who condemned hundreds and possibly thousands of men and women to death, some after trials that lasted only five minutes, or after no trials at all.
He made his grim mark on the American consciousness in April 1980, when, in cleric's robes and turban, he was reported to have poked at the charred bodies of American commandos killed in the failed attempt to rescue hostages from the United States Embassy.
Ayatollah Khalkhali said he was in demand as a teacher of Islamic law at the theological colleges that are clustered in Qum, but a room stacked to the ceiling with copies of books he has written suggested otherwise.
lib1.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/khalkl.htm   (1630 words)

  
 Sadegh Khalkhali - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sadegh Khalkhali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sadegh Khalkhali - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sadegh Khalkhali.
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www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Sadegh-Khalkhali.html   (292 words)

  
 Hostage to Khomeini
In the first months after the revolution, it was Khalkhali who served as the unofficial judge and executioner for hundreds, probably thousands, of political prisoners.
He sadistic temperament and lust for blood earned him the nickname “Judge Blood.” He is a certified lunatic and spent a number of years in a mental asylum for torturing and killing small animals, such as cats and birds.
Gotbzadeh reportedly is a notorious homesexual-sadist, like Khalkhali, and the fact that he is not married has long been the subject of jokes among Iranians.
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 IranianVoice.org - Dialogue Of Murder
In Tehran, Sadegh Khalkhali, the revolutionary judge responsible for countless executions in Iran, announced the successful operation.
In a television interview, Bakhtiar revealed that the hit men had been sent by Khalkhali and that he was aware of the threat for several months.
A month later, on September 17, Sadegh Sharafkandi, who succeeded the murdered Qassemlou, together with two of his associates, were gunned down mafia-style while they ate at a Berlin restaurant called Mykonos.
www.a-listonline.com /iran/html/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=709   (2688 words)

  
 Iran-Iraq War - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A successful invasion of western Iran would make Iraq the dominating force in the Persian Gulf region and its lucrative oil trade.
Severe officer purges (including several executions ordered by Sadegh Khalkhali, the post-revolution Sharia ruler) and spare part shortages for Iran's American-made equipment had crippled Iran's once mighty military.
The bulk of the Iranian military was made up of poorly armed, but committed, militias.
open-encyclopedia.com /Iran-Iraq_War   (1570 words)

  
 Notes on Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
Very quickly, however, it turned out that Bani-Sadr was a "moderate", that he wanted to make a face-saving deal to release the hostages,and in a couple of weeks he was out, consigned to media oblivion, a victim of his own sober moderation.
For a while, extremist-watchers were pinning their hopes on the sinister-looking Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, head of the Revolutionary Tribunal and known lovingly in Iran as the "hanging judge", who had executed hundreds of the Shah's aides and was in charge of the world-wide execution teams sent abroad to wreak justice upon the ex-ruler.
And yet Khalkhali too proved disappointing; for at one point he blurted out that the American hostages were "guests" of Iran and should be treated as such and sent home.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He was a supporter of National Front of Iran and was a close a..
Sadegh Hedayat (In Persian: صادق هدایت;) (February 17, 1903 - April 9, 1951) is Iran's foremost writer of prose fiction and short-story.
He was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family and was schooled at the French high school in Tehran.
www.alanaditescili.net /browse.php?title=S/SA/SAD   (4294 words)

  
 A new spring of freedom? - Iran's 25th anniversary of the revolution
It was then and there that the forces of ignorance started to proceed with their plan.
It was a time when the now deceased Sheikh Sadegh Khalkhali declared Persepolis as a symbol of decadence and ordered his henchmen to destroy it.
And then, as the governor ordered the military to stop them, my father said, "you will destroy Persepolis over my dead body." With that, he saved the ancient treasure, but resigned from his post only one month later.
www.payvand.com /news/04/feb/1112.html   (1128 words)

  
 CONK! Encyclopedia: Iranian_revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Since the end of the civil war, Hezbollah has developed a significant domestic base and is no longer reliant on support from Iran, but relations between the two remain close.
Upon the ascension of the new Shi'ite regime, scores of the Shah's secret police, the SAVAK, and other supporters of the Shah were executed (most importantly by Sadegh Khalkhali, the Sharia ruler).
The Shah himself found political asylum in Egypt under Anwar Sadat.
www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Iranian_revolution   (3400 words)

  
 1979 unjust revolution in IRAN
On December 7, 1979, Prince Shahriar Shafiq, the Shah's nephew, Princess Ashraf's second son, was walking on a Parisian street carrying groceries home to his sister's apartment when he was shot in the back of the head.
In Tehran, revolutionary judge Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali announced the death.
On September 17, 1992, Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fatah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and Nouri Dehkordi are killed at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany.
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 Jewish Community to honor "Iranian Schindler"
It's to note that Amir-Abbas Hoveyda was murdered by the clerics upon their take over of the political power in Iran.
He was hit by several bullets shot by the brutal Sheikh Sadegh Khalkhali while most World's leaders were asking clemency for the respected Prime Minister.
It's said that the interview carried by the zealous French reporter "Christine Ockrent" and the understanding, by several mullahs, of the risk of witnessing their past surfacing out, was the main cause of the speedy murder of Mr.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1118404/posts   (917 words)

  
 Iran Iraq war Article, IranIraqwar Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A successful invasion ofwestern Iran would make Iraq the dominating force inthe Gulf region and its lucrative oil trade.
Severe officer purges (includingseveral executions ordered by Sadegh Khalkhali, the post-revolutionSharia ruler) and spare part shortages for Iran's American-made equipment had crippled Iran's once mighty military.
Thebulk of the Iranian military was made up of poorly armed, but committed militias.
www.anoca.org /iranian/iraqi/iran_iraq_war.html   (1274 words)

  
 Iran
He gave as an example the exclusion from eligibility to run in the 1991 election of Hojatoleslam Sadegh Khalkhali, a revolutionary court judge and former member of parliament.
He said that documents show him to be a thief, and that such people should be excluded.
Hojatoleslam Khalkhali was, however, never prosecuted as a thief.
www.hrw.org /reports/1996/Iran.htm   (10170 words)

  
 In the Name of the Most Merciful
Sometimes the contrast between 1979 and 1995 is dramatic.
In 1979, six months into the Iranian revolution, he visited the ''hanging judge'' from Qom, Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, a publicity-seeking clown in clerical fl, who boasted that he condemned as many as 30 people a week.
These returns across time give unusual depth to Naipaul's encounters.
partners.nytimes.com /books/98/06/07/reviews/980607.07ignatit.html   (1218 words)

  
 Articles - Sadegh Khalkhali   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali (صادق خلخالی in Persian) (1927?
Cell phone tracking aids law enforcement (The Journal News)
Calypso Wireless has partnered with an Italian company to carry out a demo of VoIP over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) utilizing a GSM-GPRS cell phone.
www.gaple.com /articles/Sadeq_Khalkhali   (354 words)

  
 Iranian Mythology - a response
Hoveyda, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi did NOT betray your brother.
The real culprit is not even that miserable psychopath Sadegh Khalkhali.
Secular Iranian intellectuals hatched the plot for the murder of Amir Abbas Hoveyda, your brother and our friend years before 1979.
www.amiran.com /Sphinx/pagesix.htm   (2860 words)

  
 New York Times (Muslims respect enemy dead)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The international press broadcast to the world the disturbing pictures of Iranian authorities ripping open the body bags containing the remains of the Delta Force commandos.
Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali, formerly Tehran's chief Islamic judge held up a portion of charred arm and shouted for the world to hear, " This is proof of Carter's crime." and sarcastically added, "My heart aches for the families of these victims."
No lie too great as long as it makes the U.S. look bad - the NY Times is simply beyond disgusting.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/952011/posts   (2642 words)

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