Davoud Maddadi

Vice Chairman of Ghadir Charity Bonyad. Maddadi was caretaker minister of Cooperatives, Labor, and Social Welfare (Aug 2005–Nov 2005), CEO and board chairman of the Social Security Organization of Iran (also known as Tamin; Nov 2005–Oct 2006), CEO of Kish Free Zone Organization (April 2008–July 2009), and Qalibaf’s campaign manager on Kish and Qeshm Islands in the 2013 presidential election.

Morteza Nabavi

Board Chairman of Ghadir Charity Bonyad, former editor-in-chief and managing editor of Resalat newspaper, former minister of Post and Telegraph and Telephone, former MP (4th, 5th Majles), and current member of the Expediency Council.

Mostafa Mirlohi

‌Board member of Ghadir Charity Bonyad and the son-in-law of the late head of the Assembly of Experts Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani. The Kani clan is related to Ayatollah Khamenei through marriage.

Ghadir Charity Bonyad

Reza Motallebi Kashani is one of the founding members of this charity, which was established in 2013 to “prepare the grounds for the emergence of Mahdi,” the 12th Shia Imam. At the time, the board chairman of this bonyad gave an interview to Resalat newspaper in which he revealed that clerics Ali Reza Panahian and Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard were also involved in this charity. Panahian recently made headlines when it was revealed that he had received a house worth 30 billion toman (about $1.3 million) from Motallebi Kashani. Panahian’s daughter is married to one of Mahdavi Kani’s grandsons.

Alireza Zakani

Founding member of Cancer Charity, Principlist politician, former Tehran MP (2004–2016), and current Qom MP, head of the special committee to review the JCPOA, and according to Iranian news media closely affiliated with Jahan News Website

Kazem Zendehdel

Founding member of Cancer Charity and director of the Health Ministry’s Research Development Center, as well as the director of the ministry’s Disease Registry and Outcomes program.

Cancer Charity

Reza Motallebi Kashani is one of the founding members of this charity, which was established in 2012. Other individuals on its founding board are Kazem Zendehdel and Alireza Zakani.

Alireza Fallah Mirzaei

A founding member of Reyhaneh charity, a former tax prosecutor and member of the committee to prosecute the bureaucratic infractions of banks and insurance managers and employees.

Seyyed Mansour Razavi

A founding member of Reyhaneh charity, politician, former Rafsanjani VP, and Tehran councilman. Razavi has been a trustee of Jameh Talimat Eslami, an influential religious entity that operates religious schools – and Esra Research Institute, which belongs to influential cleric Abdollah Javadi Amoli’s son Morteza.

Mohammad Ali Hadi Najafabadi

A founding member of Reyhaneh charity and a cleric and politician who translated Khomeini’s pronouncements into Arabic when he was in Paris. He was tried in the Bank Sarmayeh case on charges of “participating in the disruption of the country’s economy through the misappropriation of funds.” In January 2021, he was sentenced to five years in jail, 74 whip lashes, and a lifetime ban from holding government positions. Najafabadi was a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal as one of the individuals who negotiated on behalf of the Islamic Republic with US Marine Corps officer Robert Macfarlane.

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