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Place of Birth: Azarshahr, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
About Hadi Ghaffari
- Hojatoleslam Hadi Ghaffari (Persian: ??? ??????? ???? ??????) (born June 25, 1950 in Azarshahr) is a member of the central council of Imam assembly forces and the president of the Al-Hadi Institute in Iran.
- He was accused to have murdered the ex-Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida during the sham trials by Sadeq Khalkhali on April 7, 1979.
- He was also in charge of supervising Hezbollah of Iran.According to Dr Mir Ali Montazam, one-time first secretary at the Iranian embassy, Ghaffari, was nicknamed the "machinegun mullah" , since he was mostly seen with guns in the early revolution years.
- Montazam further alleges that Ghaffari played a key part in funding the Provisional IRA during the Troubles.
- Iranian officials deposited £4 million into a secret Jersey bank account, funded by the sale of artwork from the Iranian Embassy in London.
- Ghaffari was sent to Belfast and organized the distribution of the money via sympathetic Irish businessmen.
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