Saeed Emami

Saeid Emami
Born	14 January 1958 Shiraz, Iran
Died	19 June 1999 (aged 41) Lugman Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation	Member of Ministry of Intelligence
Years active	1979–1999

Saeid Emami (Persian: سعید امامی‎‎; né Saeid Eslami also known as Daniyal Ghavami; 1958–1999) was the Iranian deputy minister of intelligence under Ali Fallahian, and adviser to the Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi. He was appointed as deputy minister in security affairs and the second person of intelligence ministry when he was 32 years old . He is also considered as the designer and leader of many internal and extraterritorial intelligence operations during 90s , especially in the case of western countries, Israel and anti revolutionary units. He was accused to having independently organized the assassinations of dissidents (known as the "chain murders").

Emami was born in Abadeh, near Shiraz, Iran as Daniyal Ghavami in a wealthy family. In 1978, he moved to the United States with the help of his uncle, Soltan Mohammad Etemad, to pursue his studies in mechanical engineering. Following the Iranian Revolution, he returned to Iran and became involved in intelligence gathering. In 1984, when the Majlis of Iran (the Iranian Parliament) approved the establishment of the ministry of intelligence, he joined the ministry and worked at the foreign directorate during Mohammad Reyshahri's term. Later he was appointed deputy minister during the tenure of Ali Fallahian. He was also the director of the ministry's security directorate.

Many sources claimed that Emami was of Jewish origin, but Ali Fallahian believes that "they just wanted to justify his arrest and torture". According to Hamshahri, he was the first Holocaust denier in the Islamic Republic.

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