11 Facts About Saeed Emami

Saeed Emami was the Iranian deputy minister of intelligence under Ali Fallahian, and adviser to the Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi.

Saeed Emami was appointed as deputy minister in security affairs and the second person of intelligence ministry when he was 32 years old.

Saeed Emami is considered as the designer and leader of many internal and extraterritorial intelligence operations during the 1990s, especially in the case of western countries, Israel and anti-revolutionary units.

Saeed Emami was accused of having independently organized the assassinations of dissidents.

Saeed Emami was the director of the ministry's security directorate.

Some sources claimed that Emami was of Jewish origin, but Ali Fallahian believes that "they just wanted to justify his arrest and torture".

In 1999, after being charged with orchestrating the Chain Murders, Saeed Emami was arrested and imprisoned.

On 20 June 1999, it was announced that Saeid Saeed Emami had died in prison the night before.

Saeed Emami's family held a memorial service for him in which 400 people participated.

Saeed Emami was later alleged to have assisted in the defection of Abolghassem Farhad Mesbahi, a former Iranian intelligence official.

Mesbahi stated he fled Iran in 1996 after his former colleague Saeed Emami warned him of an assassination order against him.