Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

June 14, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exile Iranians, Reporters without Borders want cleric arrested for torture

Kaveh Moussavi, an exile Iranian, told the German Die Welt paper that Mansouri was involved in a crime operation that caused “the murder and ultimately the torture of at least one person.”

December 25, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Top Iranian cleric Shahroudi dies who oversaw 2,000 executions

Shahroudi, 70, was a close ally of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and had been seen by analysts as a possible successor to him.

April 23, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German students protest anti-Israel policy of former foreign minister

Students at the University of Bonn in Germany demonstrated against a talk delivered by former German foreign minister ...

March 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Ambassador Praises Iranian Holocaust Denier, Politician

Germany’s ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold praised last week Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s quasi-parliament and a well-known denier of the Holocaus...

February 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Fear of US Sanctions Ends German Companies Fueling Iranian FM’s Plane

Energy and oil companies refused to refuel Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s airplane ahead of his trip to the Munich Security Conference in mid-February to avoid violations of US sanc...

January 15, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Doesn’t Arrest Iranian Cleric Accused of Crimes against Humanity, Lets him Leave

Germany has allowed Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the former head of Iran’s judiciary accused of crimes against humanity, to flee the country on Thursday for Iran, after the...

January 12, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany Permits Iranian Regime Mass Murderer to Flee the Country

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints filed against him for ...

January 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany urged to abandon its support of Iran’s mullah regime

While tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets in protest, the German government is taking heat for what some are calling its pro-regime policy in Iran, and its decision to allow s...

January 8, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Politician Files Criminal Complaint Against Iranian Ayatollah for Mass Murder

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, considered to be a successor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, faces protests and possible criminal prosecutions in Germany for his widespread exec...

May 25, 2016 | |

A Hardliner’s Hardliner Wins Assembly of Experts Chair

The Assembly of Experts, the body charged with choosing Iran’s supreme leader, selected one of the Islami...

March 9, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief |

Succession After Khamenei

Iranian TV aired footage Sunday of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei addressing a group of environmental officials at his residence in central...

October 23, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu FDD Policy Brief |

The Passing of Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani

What it means for the Islamic Republic