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Iranian military officer and politician (1919–1979)

TimsarAli Hojjat Kashani
علی حجت کاشانی


Director of Physical Education Organization
In office 1969 – 7 August 1977
Monarch	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Prime Minister	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
Succeeded by	Nader Jahanbani

Personal details
Born	9 April 1919 Iran
Died	11 April 1979(1979-04-11) (aged 60)
Military service
Branch/service	Imperial Iranian Army
Rank	Lieutenant general

Ali Hojjat Kashani (Persian: علی حجت کاشانی;‎1919 – 11 April 1979) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Army of Iran and the deputy prime minister. He was head of the Physical Education Organization. He was executed in Qasr Prison after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. During his tenure Iranian sportspeople won 64 medals at the Asian Games in Tehran, including 30 gold medal. He also played an important role in the re-admission of Chinese sports to international forums.

He was known as the "Timsar Hojjat" among the people of the sports community.

References

"A look at the transfer of sport from the monarchy to the Islamic Republic". BBC News (in Persian). 10 February 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
"SADR al-DIN". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2 ed.). doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_dum_3113.
^ رستم‌پور, مهدی (7 October 2014). "Chinese sports caravan and General Hojjat Kashani". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Radio Farda. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
"Etemad newspaper (23 June 2006): Permanent suspects". www.magiran.com. Retrieved 28 May 2022.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Ali Hojjat Kashani at Wikimedia Commons

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Politicians and noblemen of the Pahlavi period	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda Parviz Nikkhah Javad Saeed Abbas Ali Khalatbari Abdollah Riazi Gholamreza Kianpour Gholamreza Nikpey Farrokhroo Parsa Mohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani Mahmoud Jafarian Mansour Rouhani Manouchehr Azmoun Manutchehr Salimi
Soldiers of the Pahlavi period	Amir Hossein Rabii Ayat Mohaqeqi Pervez Amini Afshar Habib Elghanian Hassan Pakravan Hossein-Ali Bayat Seyyed Javad Zabihi Reza Naji Saeed Mehdiyoun Ali Hojjat Kashani Ali Neshat Mohammad Taghi Majidi Manouchehr Khosrodad Mehdi Rahimi Nader Jahanbani Nasser Moghaddam Nematollah Nassiri
Left-wing politics	Bahram Afzali Hassan Azarfar
Other political opponents	Khosrow Qashqai Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Mona Mahmudnizhad Kamran Samimi Sirous Rowshani
Perpetrators	Ruhollah Khomeini Sadegh Khalkhali Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani Mohammad Reyshahri Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi Asadollah Lajevardi Ali Qoddusi
Category:People executed by Iran

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