NCRI – Hassan Rouhani’s choice for new minister of Islamic guidance, Ali Jannati, has announced his policies while in office will be ‘guided by the Supreme Leader’.
Ali Taheri, speaker of the regime parliament’s Cultural Commission, said: “Mr Jannati has stated that his red line is the Supreme Leader, and that he had spoken openly on the subject in a meeting with President Hassan Rouhani and his new ministers.”
In the early years after the revolution, Jannati was a member of the ‘Supervisory Council for Radio and Television’, headed by Hassan Rouhani, and which paved the way for mass censorship across the regime
In 1983, he was head of the state-run Channel 1 TV network and played an active role in sending artists and supporters of free speech into exile.
Jannati is also known to have played a major role in suppressing opposition as Governor of Khuzestan and Khorasan. Then as Governor of Khorasan province he began a wave of killings during the the Mashhad uprising in May, 1992.
From 1992 to 1998, he was Deputy of International Affairs in the Ministry of Guidance and played a continuing role in the suppression of Iran’s culture and art.
During Ahmadinejad’s presidency in 2005, Jannati was deputy to interior minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, one of the regime’s most criminal senior officials who was responsible for the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.
At the Ministry of Guidance, Jannati will again be overseeing the censorship and suppression of the press and other media.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 12, 2013
