Mohammad Reyshahri
| Mohammad Reyshahri | |
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| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
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Assumed office 24 May 2016 |
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| Constituency | Tehran Province |
| Majority | 1,952,563 (43.38%) |
| Minister of Intelligence of Iran | |
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In office 18 August 1984 – 1 August 1989 |
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| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Nasser Moghadam |
| Succeeded by | Ali Fallahian |
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| Born |
Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik October 29, 1946 Rey, Iran |
| Political party | Association for Defence of Revolution Values (1996–1999) |
| Alma mater | Haghani Circle |
| Religion | Islam |
Mohammad Reyshahri (Persian: محمد ری شهری), also known as Mohammad Mohammadi-Nik, (born 29 October 1946), best known as Reyshahri, is an Iranian politician and cleric who was the first Minister of Intelligence, served from 1984 to 1989 in cabinet of Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Reyshahri was born into a religious family in Rey on 29 October 1946. He was educated in Qom and Najaf in the field of theology. He and his successor at the ministry of intelligence, Ali Fallahian, are alumni of the Haqqani School in Qom. He began to involve in political activities in June 1963 during the religious revolts after Khomeini's famous speech in Qom.
In 1967, Reyshahri fled to Najaf and stayed there for a while. Upon his return to Iran, he was imprisoned. Until the revolution, he was banned from preaching.
During the revolution, Reyshahri claimed to have discovered two abortive Coup d'état: the Nozheh coup, which was supposed to happen on 8 July 1980 by supporters of Shapour Bakhtiar, and was reported to Reyshahri by Saeed Hajjarian, and the Ghotbzadeh coup, which led to the execution of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh and the removal of grand ayatollah Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari from being a marja by the Society of Teachers of the Qom Hawza. The ayatollah was subsequently put under house arrest, and died in 1986. In his memoirs, Reyshahri reveals that he personally hit grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari during the interrogations.
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