Sadegh Khalkhali
Sadegh Khalkhali (صادق خلخالی in Persian) has been one of the hardline clerics of the early years of the Islamic Republic of Iran. On February 24, 1979, he was chosen by Ayatollah Khomeini to be the Sharia ruler (حاکم شرع in Persian) to overlook the courts and make Islamic rulings, many of which were executions.
Khalkhali is famous for his many orders of hanging of Iranian officers of the Pahlavi era, specially Abbar Abbas Hoveida, a former prime minister, and General Nassiri, a former head of SAVAK. He later investigated and ordered the execution of activists for independence of Kurdistan and Turkmen Sahra, and then drug traffickers. In an interview, he has personally confirmed ordering more than 100 executions.
He died in 2003 at the age of 76 after a heart problem.
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