Hassan Sane'i (1934 â 21 July 2023) was an Iranian government official who was a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He was also the president of the 15 Khordad Foundation, a quasi-governmental foundation that was created in 1981.
Sane'i was a fundamentalist who called for the execution of Salman Rushdie, raising a bounty for his insulting Islam.
Sane'i was the brother of the reformist Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei. He died on 21 July 2023, at the age of 89.