Sayyid Mohammad Hashemi () is an Iranian businessman and former

intelligence officer An intelligence officer is a member of the intelligence field employed by an organization to collect, compile or analyze information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organization. The word of ''officer'' is a working title, not a r ...

. He was one of "the core group of leaders" of the

Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line ( ''Dânešjuyân-e Mosalmân-e peyrov-e Khatt-e Emâm''), also called the Muslim Students of the Imam Khomeini Line, was an Iranian student group that occupied the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 Novem ...

involved in the

Iran Hostage Crisis The Iran hostage crisis () began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. Th ...

, the first deputy of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security for some years. From 2003 to 2004, when the venture went bankrupt, he was a developer of a proposed vacation resort on the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

called Cham Paradise. He is the husband of

Masoumeh Ebtekar Masoumeh Ebtekar (; born 21 September 1960) is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and ...

, another well-known Iranian and former spokesperson for the hostage takers.'Guests of the Ayatollah': Hostage takers explain their actions
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Living people Deputies of the Ministry of Intelligence (Iran) Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line 1951 births Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers {{Iran-politician-stub