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Notes on Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel

Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel is the gentleman second from the right in the first row. Photo: www.persianacademy.ir

Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel was elected to a one year term as Speaker of the Seventh Majles on June 6, 2004

Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel is a member of the Majlis (The Islamic Consultative Assembly) from Tehran. Haddad-Adelis a professor of literature and philosophy at Tehran University and author of numerous books and text books. Haddad-Adelis is head of the state sponsored Academy of Persian Language and Literature.

Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel was born in Tehran Iran in 1945. He is close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Most sources suggest a marriage tie but they vary widely. The Western press usually says that the son of Haddad-Adel is married to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei daughter. Other sources suggest it is Haddad-Adel's daughter and Khamenei's son or that Haddad-Adel himself is married to Khamenei's younger daughter. Whatever the truth is the men are allies.

Haddad-Adel belongs to a political party called Coalition of Builders of Islamic Iran and is politically allied with Former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

He has written numerous textbooks as well as:

Haddad-Adel, Gholam Ali. Farhang-e Berahnegi va Berahnegi-e Farhangi (Nudity Culture or Cultural Nudity), Soroush, Tehran, 1980.

Haddad-Adel, Gholam Ali.Haj: Namaaz-e Bozorg (Hajj: the Grand Prayer), Sana, Tehran, 2000.

Haddad-Adel, Gholam Ali. Editor. Daaneshnaame-ye Jahaan-e Eslam (The Encyclopedia of the Islamic World), Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation, Volumes 2-6 (as superviser), 1996-2001.