Fakhreddin Hejazi (Persian: فخرالدین حجازی) was an Iranian orator and politician who represented Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat from 1980 to 1992,[1] and was the most-voted deputy in the 1980 Iranian legislative election.[2]
Fakhreddin Hejazi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1992 | |
| Constituency | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1929 |
| Died | 2007 |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Islamic Republican Party |
Political positions edit
According to Ali Rahnema, Hejazi was "[a] one-time zealot sympathizer of Fada'iyan-e Islam and later one of the most popular speakers at Hosseiniyeh Ershad, before the arrival of Ali Shariati, Hejazi was a vibrant, moving and charismatic orator fond of creating an atmosphere of quasi-theatrical drama and passion play".[3] He was a supporter of Ruhollah Khomeini and closely associated with the Islamic Republican Party.[2]
Mehrzad Boroujerdi states that Hejazi was a religious intellectual who understood that he was to serve the clergy as a junior partner because he was a layman.[4]
Robin Wright describes him as a "fiery hard-liner who had called for Nuremberg-type trials of the hostages in 1980".[1] In a campaign speech for 1992 Iranian legislative election, he expressed his resentment of laissez-faire and advocated "trade with the Islamic government's control", while he opposed the foreign policy of the Association of Combatant Clerics.[1]
Hejazi is known for his televised "unabashed flattery" of Khomeini, during which he was called "the light of God", "son of Imam Ali and the Prophet Muhammad", "the heir to all prophets and Imams" and "manifestation of the proof of God". Khomeini himself rebuffed the speech and said "I fear I would come to believe what Mr. Hejazi said about me."[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c Wright, Robin (22 June 1992), "A Teheran Spring", The New Yorker
- ^ a b Randjbar-Daemi, Siavush (2017), The Quest for Authority in Iran: A History of The Presidency from Revolution to Rouhani, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 24, ISBN 9781786732675
- ^ a b Rahnema, Ali (2011). Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad. Cambridge University Press. pp. 129–130. ISBN 978-1-139-49562-2.
- ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad (1994), "The Encounter of Post-Revolutionary Thought in Iran with Hegel, Heidegger and Popper", in Mardin, Şerif (ed.), Cultural Transitions in the Middle East, BRILL, ISBN 9789004098732
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