Hamidreza Moghaddamfar

Sardar

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar
Hamidreza Moghaddamfar picture
Native name
حمیدرضا مقدّم‌فر
Born1961[1]
Iran
AllegianceIslamic Republic of Iran
Service / branchIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
RankSecond brigadier general
EducationPhD in Strategic Sciences

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar (born 1961) is an Iranian university professor, expert on strategic issues, cultural and media adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran,[2][3] deputy of the Office of Preservation and Publication of Seyyed Ali Khamenei's Works,[4] secretary of the People's Headquarters of Commemoration of Qasem Soleimani and cultural adviser of the Islamic Azad University. He is in charge of publishing and advertising the works of Seyyed Ali Khamenei (the current leader of Iran) to the youth of Europe and North America.[5] He was the CEO of Fars News Agency from 2007 to 2011. Then, he became the cultural and social deputy of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and was in this position until September 2014.[6] In 2015, Moghadamfar received the official Iran honorary badge of The Striving in the Field of Culture and Art.[7][8] He is also a member of the board of trustees of the shrine of Sultan Ali ibn Muhammad Baqir.

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar also has a record of being a member of the Islamic Republican Party, teaching and managing in the Iran's education ministry branches.[9]

Communication with Catherine Perez-Shakdam

In March 2022, materials were published on social networks that Hamidreza Moghaddamfar, the deputy of the Office of Preservation and Publication of Seyyed Ali Khamenei's Works, met with Catherine Perez-Shakdam, and connected her to institutions and organizations such as Ali Khamenei's office and Tasnim news agency. The Tasnim news agency published a statement on its website, denying this meeting and calling it a lie by some supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran. So Tasnim news agency totally denied the responsibility of Hamidreza Moghaddamfar in Ali Khamenei's office.[10]

The Persian-language section of the Independent newspaper wrote in a report that Catherine Perez-Shakdam, who previously worked in think tanks affiliated with the Israeli government, entered Iran and won the trust of many senior officials and IRGC commanders, so she had close cooperation with the Office of Preservation and Publication of the Works of the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran under supervision of Hamidreza Moghaddamfar and Komeil Khojasteh Bagherzadeh, the nephew of Ali Khamenei's wife.[11]

Violation of the rights of Baha'i citizens

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar, Mashhad, 2015.

Hamidreza Moghaddamfar has been criticized for publishing anti-Bahá'í contents in Fars news agency during his tenure as CEO.[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "«دست‌خط» با حضور حمیدرضا مقدّم‌فر - همشهری آنلاین" (in Persian). January 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ "مشاور فرمانده سپاه: چرا حسین شریعتمداری اصرار دارد به مخاطبان خود تفهیم کند رهبر انقلاب مثل من فکر می‌کند؟! مثل من تحلیل می‌کند؟! و مثل من می‌فهمد؟!" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  3. ^ "حمیدرضا مقدّم‌فر: مشاور فرهنگی و رسانه‌ای فرمانده کل سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی" (in Persian). 28 November 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  4. ^ "بازدید معاون دفتر حفظ و نشر آثار رهبر معظم انقلاب از خبرگزاری حوزه - خبرگزاری حوزه" (in Persian). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  5. ^ "ایجاد ستاد نشر و تبلیغ نامه رهبر انقلاب به جوانان غربی" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  6. ^ "معاون فرهنگی سپاه: انتشار «زوال کلنل» انحراف بزرگی است". Deutsche Welle (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  7. ^ "تکلیف نشان جهادگران عرصه فرهنگ و هنر چه می‌شود؟" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  8. ^ "حمیدرضا مقدّم فر - دارای نشان افتخار جهادگر عرصه فرهنگ و هنر" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  9. ^ "درباره حمیدرضا مقدّم‌فر - موسسه فرهنگی طلوع" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  10. ^ "درباره ماجرای کاترین پرز شکدم/ پروژه مشترک سایت اسرائیلی و کانال احمدی‌نژادی" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  11. ^ "جاسوس اسرائیلی، همکار نزدیکان رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ایران" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  12. ^ "پرونده ناقض حقوق بشر: حمیدرضا مقدم‌فر" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  13. ^ "روش‌های تبلیغی فرقه آقاخانیه/ شباهت‌های عملیاتی با بهائیت" (in Persian). Retrieved 12 July 2022.
Media offices
Preceded by
Mahdi Fazaeli
 CEO of Fars News Agency
2007–2011 		Succeeded by
Nezamoddin Mousavi
Military offices
Preceded by Cultural and Social Deputy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
2011–2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
?
 Cultural and Media Adviser to the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
2014–2019 		Succeeded by
?