Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght [SEP] country of citizenship
Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght
Mohammad-Hossein Khoshvaght was head of the press and foreign journalists department at Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, under reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
Background.
A relative by marriage to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he is a former Rome bureau chief of the Islamic Republic News Agency, fluent in Italian and English. He came into news during the alleged murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi by official security forces, as he claimed he was repeatedly forced by Saeed Mortazavi to
Aziz Khoshvaght
Aziz Allah Khoshvaqt (Persian: عزیز خوشوقت) also known as Ayatollah Khoshvaqt, was born in 1926 in Tehran, was a contemporary philosopher, mystic, theologian and faqih. He was student of Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai, Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi and Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini. He was the second child of the family, went to seminary after passing high-school, and went to Qom after educating for five years in Lorzadeh mosque in Tehran. He came back to Tehran after end of his seminary education, and got married