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Ali Asghar Hejazi is a senior official within the Supreme Leader’s Office in charge of security. Hejazi also maintains close links to the IRGC’s Qods Force;
Acts as adviser and Head of security office of the supreme leader. He was appointed by Khomeini to re-organize Savak. He served as a deputy of the new intelligence Ministry. After Khomeini’s death he was moved to the supreme- leaders office. He is known to be one of those ordering torture and execution of political persons;
Hejazi was previously designated in May 2013 pursuant to E.O. 13553, a human rights authority, for supporting the commission of serious human rights abuses in Iran on or after June 12, 2009, as well as for providing material support to the IRGC and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS);
Asghar Mir-Hejazi is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13553 for supporting the commission of serious human rights abuses in Iran on or after June 12, 2009, as well as providing material support to the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Mir-Hejazi is the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Supreme Leader, and is closely involved in all discussions and deliberations related to military and foreign affairs. After the disputed 2009 election, Mir-Hejazi played a leading role in suppressing the unrest in Iran;
Following the disputed June 12, 2009 presidential election and the massive protests it provoked, the government unleashed the most widespread crackdown in a decade. Both ordinary protestors and prominent opposition figures faced detention without trial, harsh treatment including sexual violence and denial of due process. Security forces were responsible for at least 30 deaths, according to official sources. Security forces also arrested dozens of leading government critics, including human rights lawyers, whom the government held without charge, many of them in solitary confinement. Security forces used beatings, threats against family members, sleep deprivation, and fake executions to intimidate detainees and to force them to confess that they instigated post-election riots and were plotting a coup. The IRGC, Basij, and the MOIS were responsible for many serious human rights violations;
Mir-Hejazi, since the beginning of Khamenei’s leadership, has been chief of the Supreme Leader’s Office’s Intelligence and Security Division, and is considered the working brain behind the scenes of important events. He is considered one of the primary officials in the oppression following the June 2009 post-election unrest. On March 23, 2012, the European Union added Mir-Hejazi to its restrictive measures (sanctions) list directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation following the June 2009 elections in Iran;
Title:
Security Deputy of Supreme Leader
Member of the Leader’s Planning Chamber
Head of Security of Supreme Leader’s Office
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Supreme Leader’s Office
Advisor to the Supreme Leader
Also Known As:
Mir-Hejazi, Asghar
Hejazi, Asghar
Hejazi, Asghar Sadegh
Mir-Hejazi Ruhani, Ali Asqar
Mirhejazi, Ali
Mir-Hejazi, Ali Asqar
Hejazi, Seyyed Ali Asghar
Born:
08 Sep 1946
Country:
Iran
Nationality:
Iranian
Reason for the color:
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on January 10, 2020 pursuant to Executive Order 13876 for being persons appointed to a position as a state official of Iran by the Supreme Leader;
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on 5/30/2013 pursuant to Executive Order 13553 for supporting the commission of serious human rights abuses in Iran on or after June 12, 2009;