{"id":239841,"date":"2021-05-17T13:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=239841"},"modified":"2023-01-29T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T20:26:20","slug":"irans-elections-2021-who-is-ezzatollah-zarghami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/irans-elections-2021-who-is-ezzatollah-zarghami\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Election 2021: Who is Ezzatollah Zarghami?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zargahmi.-3-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zargahmi.-3-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-3-1-696x348.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ezzatollah Zarghami, 62,\u00a0is a\u00a0conservative regime insider, and\u00a0part of the Iranian\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0Old Guard. He took part in the seizure\u00a0and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/u-s-embassy-hostage-takers-now-hold-top-positions-in-iran-government\/\" rel=\"noopener\">hostage taking<\/a> at the US Embassy in Tehran, made his way as a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)<\/a> radio anchor during the Iran-Iraq war, was promoted to Brig. Gen.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in the IRGC where<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-regime-khamenei-rouhani-internal-rifts\" rel=\"noopener\"> he was involved in<\/a> domestic missile production. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_239876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239876\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2.png\" alt=\"The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2-768x582.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2-150x114.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-seizure-of-US-Embassy-in-Tehran-1979-2-696x528.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guards in front of US Embassy in Tehran, 1979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zargahmi.-2-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zargahmi.-2-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Zargahmi.-2-1-696x564.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He climbed up to a censorship role as Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance before being appointed by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as head of the state broadcaster (IRIB) in 2004, a position he held for 10 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He\u00a0was\u00a0a high-school\u00a0classmate of Hassan Tehrani-Moghaddam,\u00a0who led the regime\u2019s\u00a0domestic ballistic missile program. Tehrani-Moghaddam was killed in 2011.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During his tenure as the head of\u00a0IRIB, the state television\u00a0network\u00a0broadcast many forced confessions by dissidents.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Zarghami\u00a0was sanctioned by the European Union on 23 March 2012 &#8220;for committing human rights abuses.&#8221;\u00a0He was also sanctioned in the US per\u00a0Executive Order 13628, under the category &#8220;Entities Designated as Human Rights Abusers or Limiting Free Expression&#8221; in February 2013.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Positions held by Zarghami:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Member of the Followers of Imam\u2019s Line \u2013 US Embassy hostage-taker<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Anchor\u00a0of IRGC Radio Program (1982 &#8211; 1986)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Member of the IRIB Supervisory Council (1992 &#8211; 1997)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Member of the IRNA Supreme Council of policymaking (1992 &#8211; 1997)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Deputy of Parliamentary Affairs to the Ministry of Defense (1997 &#8211; 2000)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Deputy of IRIB Parliamentary and Provincial Affairs (2000 &#8211; 2006)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Head of the\u00a0State Broadcasting (IRIB)\u00a0(2004 &#8211; 2014)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Planning and Programming Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559740&quot;:240,&quot;335559991&quot;:270,&quot;469777462&quot;:[840],&quot;469777927&quot;:[0],&quot;469777928&quot;:[8]}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Member of the Supreme Council of Cyberspace (2014 &#8211; present)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><em>\u00a0Background\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Iran\u2019s regime will hold its sham presidential elections on June 18. While many try to portray the mullahs\u2019 sham elections as a sign of the regime\u2019s democracy, it is necessary to take an in-depth look at the procedures and rules of the so-called elections in the regime<br \/>\nArticle 115 of the regime\u2019s Constitution and Article 35 of the election law set the threshold for Presidential candidates to Muslim males, faithful to the \u201cIslamic Republic\u201d, and with practical belief and commitment to the principle of the velayat-e faqih (absolute clerical rule). The unelected and handpicked Guardian Council recently added further exclusions in a tactical adjustment to further disqualify and curtail potentially troublesome candidates from the self-proclaimed \u201cReformist\u201d camp in the upcoming elections.<br \/>\nThe Guardian Council has 12 members, six clerics, and six jurists. Khamenei appoints the six clerics, and the Judiciary Chief, whom Khamenei appoints, picks the six jurists. So, in effect, all Council members are chosen by the Supreme Leader.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/iran-elections-2021-what-to-know-about-the-upcoming-sham-presidential-elections\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezzatollah Zarghami, 62,&nbsp;is a&nbsp;conservative regime insider, and&nbsp;part of the Iranian&nbsp;regime&rsquo;s&nbsp;Old Guard. 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