Hassan Sane'i


Hassan Sane'i is a governmental official of Iran who is a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He is also the president of the 15-Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation that was created in 1981.
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.
He is brother of the reformist Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei.