Reyhaneh Charity

This charitable organization is owned by Motallebi Kashani, who serves as both board chairman and CEO. It was founded in 2003 with the stated aim of “caring for the elderly and disabled” and “offering hospital services and procuring medicine domestically through donations or internationally through imports.”

Reyhaneh brings together Motallebi Kashani’s long-time business partners Mehrdad Nouri and Mahmoud Khosravikia, and Mohammad Reza Kholqi as well as Ali Reza Jazini. Jazini is a military commander who has held various positions in the Iranian Police (NAJA), including advisor to the SL’s NAJA affairs deputy, commander of the Iranian Prevention Police, NAJA Deputy Coordinator, and deputy secretary general of the Iran Drug Control Headquarters.

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.

Ali Reza Jazini

Jazini is a military commander who has held various positions in the Iranian Police (NAJA), including advisor to the SL’s NAJA affairs deputy, commander of the Iranian Prevention Police, NAJA Deputy Coordinator, and deputy secretary general of the Iran Drug Control Headquarters.

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.

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.

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.

Saeed Lahouti Eshkevari

Not much is known about Fatemeh Hashemi Bahramani’s husband, Saeed, who has kept a very low profile. But he works at Akhtar Hospital, which was once the American Army hospital and transferred to Bonyad Mostazafan after the Revolution.

Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani

Faezeh, 58, is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s youngest and most controversial daughter. She is married to Hamid Lahouti Eshkevari and has two children, Hassan and Mona. Hassan lived in the UK and was briefly arrested upon his return to Iran in 2012. Mona is married but not much is known about her husband or her life. Faezeh was rumored to have divorced her husband, though she denied this in an interview published by Jamaran News in 2014.

By her account, Faezeh loved to study but was unable to pass the university entrance exam in Iran for several years until she finally gained admittance to Islamic Azad University, which was co-founded by her father in 1982. She holds a doctorate in human rights law from the school.

In 1989, early in her father’s first term as president, the Islamic Federation for Women’s Sports was founded and Faezeh, a sports fan, was appointed as its director. Faezeh held this position until 2009, when the sports federation was closed because of her political activities.

In 1996, former cabinet members and friends of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani founded the Executives of Construction Party (ECP), and Faezeh became the head of its women’s branch. The same year she won a seat in the 5th Majles. Two years into her term, Faezeh decided to try her hand at journalism by publishing Zan, a newspaper for women; one year later, it was banned for promoting feminism, among other offenses.

When she failed to win reelection, she decided to go abroad to further her education: “I first chose Canada but then changed my mind and went to the UK.” She obtained her master’s degree in human rights law from a university in Birmingham, UK, and lived there for two years “incognito.” She started a PhD program at the university but then transferred her credits to Islamic Azad University.

She now teaches law at the school’s Faculty of Law, which she implies was founded so she would have a teaching position. “We founded the faculty of law on Dr. Jassebi’s order, and I teach courses related to my field of study there.”

According to public records, Faezeh Hashemi served as an alternate board member of Daftar Nashr Maaref Enqelab from 2009 to at least 2013—records have not been updated for this institution since that year.

Hamid Lahouti Eshkevari

Husband of Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani, who is on the board of several companies, including Polyethylene Tak Sirjan, Sirjan Industrial Foams, and Sabok Saz Bespar.

Polyethylene Tak Sirjan

Founded on April 14, 1991, Hamid Lahouti was on the board of this Kerman-based company as chairman and vice chairman until September 15, 2007, when he was replaced by Abdollah Azimi. Azimi is connected to various other industrial and import-export companies. The company produces plastic bags, polypropylene fibers, and multifilament yarn, according to the business directory website Kompass.

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