Hassan Rahimpour-Azghadi (Persian: حسن رحیمپور ازغدی, born c. 1964/1965) is an Iranian conservative public speaker, conspiracy theorist and ideologue.
[2] He is considered among the new generation of fundamentalist public speakers who, without an in-depth religious education, tries to mix conspiracy theories with theological assertions in order to theorize the establishment in Iran and its policies and provide it with a Shi'ite ideological justification.
[1] Rahimpour-Azghadi is also regarded as a leading advocate of the "ruling clergy" and the "governmental-Shi'ism" discourse in Iran, a political reading of Islam which intends to manipulate and control seminaries, in contrast to the Shia traditional orthodoxy which favors independence from the government.
[5] Ali Mirsepassi, a professor at the New York University College of Arts & Science, describes Rahimpour-Azghadi as "one of the current arch-hardline ideologues of the Islamic Republic [government of Iran]".
[3] Politically, Rahimpour-Azghadi is a conservative and was a supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his administration, describing him as "a guerrilla committed to the front of the poor people of the world" who led "the most popular government in Iran's history".