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- Birth nameHassan Fereydoon
- He was born Hassan Fereydoon on 12 November 1948 in Sorkheh, Iran. He later changed his name to Hassan Rouhani (Rouhani meaning "spiritual" or "cleric").
He has held many political posts in Iran following the Islamic Revolution. Including being a member of the Iranian Parliament from 1980 to 2000, being Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005, which is responsible for the country's nuclear matters. And most recently he was elected in June 2013 to be Iran's seventh and current President of Iran and was sworn in on 3 August 2013 succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Hassan Rouhani is considered to be politically moderate and a centrist politician in comparison to his predecessor Ahmadinejad, and has promised to ease pressure on the population of Iran and to release political prisoners, to loosen up the dress codes. To fix the economy and most importantly "open up" to the world and to ease tensions with the West, to improve relations and to remove sanctions imposed on Iran by the International community due to their nuclear program.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous - His family turned against the then Shah Rheza Pahlavi. From 1960 onward he received training in traditional Islamic teaching at a school in Qom (Hawza). His theological instructors include Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohaghegh Damad, Sheikh Morteza Haeri and Syed Mohammad Gulpaygani, as well as Grand Ayatollah Sultan, Fazel Lankaran and Sheikh Muhammad Shahabadi. From 1969 onward he studied law at the university in Tehran, the largest in the country. After graduating with a Bachelor of Law in 1972, he continued his studies in Glasgow - graduating with a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil).
He is said to have later completed his doctorate in law at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1999 with a doctorate. He has acquired the religious title of Hojatoleslam, which is common in Shiite Islam, and is therefore below the Ayatollah as the most important religious title in Shiite Islam. Hassan Rouhani resigned from the position of chief negotiator in the nuclear negotiations with the EU 3 due to differences with President Ahmadinejad. The religious scholar, who is considered an important scholar in Iran, headed the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) in the 1990s and was a member of the National Security Council. In 1998, he became a member of the Council of Experts that determines and controls the Iranian revolutionary leader.
The Iranian cleric and politician was elected as his country's new president on June 14, 2013. He is considered a moderate legal scholar and reformer, which gives rise to great hopes, especially in the Western world, for a dialogue about military disarmament and more freedom in his own country. His election victory is seen in the country and internationally as a departure from the ultra-conservative forces.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth
- SpouseSahebeh Arabi(1968 - present) (5 children)
- One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
- [on shouts of "Death to America"] The slogan that is chanted is not a slogan against the American people. They don't mean want to kill Americans, they just object to American policies.
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