1. Ali Fallahian is an Iranian cleric, judge and politician.
15 Facts About Ali Fallahian
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Ali Fallahian was Iran's second Minister of Intelligence and Security, holding office from 1989 to 1997, during the presidency of Ali Akbar Rafsanjani.
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Ali Fallahian is a graduate of Haqqani school of theology in Qom.
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From 1986 to 1988, Ali Fallahian was appointed by Ruhollah Khomeini as Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for the Clergy and led the trial against Mehdi Hashemi, while from 1988 to 1989 he was Head of the Inspectorate of the Armed Forces of Iran.
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Ali Fallahian served as a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Ali Fallahian was a candidate in the 2001 presidential election, which was won by incumbent reformist Mohammad Khatami.
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Ali Fallahian came in sixth place, receiving 0.2 percent of the vote; some observers have hypothesized that Ali Fallahian only entered the election in an effort to clear his name, which has been associated with murder and political suppression.
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On 19 February 2013, in Birjand, Ali Fallahian announced his candidacy for the Iranian presidential election, saying that "people's requests to me [had] reached a threshold".
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Ali Fallahian specified that he planned on continuing the subsidy reform plan.
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Ali Fallahian added that he envisioned chances for cooperation between the two countries, especially in creating stability in Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, and Egypt.
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Ali Fallahian is currently on the official wanted list of Interpol in connection with the bombing of the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 18 July 1994, that killed 85 people.
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Ali Fallahian is under an international warrant issued in 1996 by German court because of his role in the assassinations.
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Ali Fallahian was the most prominent member of a group of five Iranians and Lebanese for whom international arrest warrants issued in March 2007.
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Ali Fallahian was named by investigative reporter Akbar Ganji as the "master key" of the 1998 "Chain Murders" of four dissident Iranian intellectuals.
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Ali Fallahian is charged by a Swiss court with masterminding the assassination of Kazem Rajavi, a brother of Mujahedin-e Khalq leader Massoud Rajavi, near Geneva in broad daylight by several agents on 24 April 1990.