1. Saeed Hajjarian is an Iranian reformist political strategist, journalist, pro-democracy activist and former intelligence officer.
16 Facts About Saeed Hajjarian
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Saeed Hajjarian was a member of Tehran's city council, and advisor to the president Mohammad Khatami.
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In 1977 Saeed Hajjarian was enrolled for military service in Gendarmerie.
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Saeed Hajjarian was one of the students who took over the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.
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Saeed Hajjarian was the editor of Sobh-e Emrooz newspaper, which strongly advocated Khatami's reforms.
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Saeed Hajjarian was believed to be the source of information for many articles written by investigative journalists, Akbar Ganji and Emadeddin Baghi.
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Saeed Hajjarian was one of the vital personal factors of President Khatami.
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Saeed Hajjarian was a member of the reformist elite and had a leadership support role in the reform movement.
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Saeed Hajjarian joined the Ministry of Intelligence and national security in 1984 and left in 1989.
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Saeed Hajjarian's assailant, Saeed Asgar, a young man reportedly a member of the Basij militia, was later arrested and sentenced to spend 15 years in jail.
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Saeed Hajjarian believes that a frontal assault on the fortresses of power is impractical.
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Saeed Hajjarian argued that there is a way of combating the predominance of Valiyat al-faqih by underlining the de facto secularization of religion by the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Khomeini.
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Saeed Hajjarian allegedly showed the supremacy of politics as such over any religious norm when he said that the interests of the Islamic Republic are paramount in Islam and that zakat, salat, hajj, and everything else in Islam, are subordinate.
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Saeed Hajjarian prefers what he calls the best alternative, which is to assume "reforms is dead, long live the reforms" and continue the reforms path patiently.
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On 16 June 2009, four days after the disputed presidential election, it was reported that Saeed Hajjarian had been arrested.
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In May 2015, Saeed Hajjarian was allowed to give a short speech at University of Tehran.