Ali Salehabadi, CEO of the Export Development Bank of Iran, was appointed to head the Central Bank upon the proposal of the Minister of Economy and the approval of the Islamic regime in Iran’s Board of Governors.
He is a graduate of Imam Sadegh University which in fact is a center for training and educating forces loyal to Khamenei in the field of financial management and Islamic education. In Ahmadinejad’s government, he was the head of the stock exchange organization from 2005 to 2014, and has a history of investment management in the Executive Headquarters of Imam Khomenei’s directive, Ghadir Investment Company, as well as membership in the Supreme Council of Article 44 of the Constitution. Salehabadi created the jurisprudential committee of the Exchange and Securities Organization at the beginning of the establishment of the Exchange Organization under the pretext of religious principles, and created more than 10 new financial institutions that have played an effective role in the regime’s money laundering cycle.
Before Salehabadi, Mohammad Hosseini (Parliamentary Deputy Chairman), Meysam Lotfi (Deputy Chairman), Ahmad Vahidi (Minister of Interior), Hojjatullah Abdolmaleki (Minister of Labor), Ehsan Khandozi (Minister of Economy), Abbas Honarmand (Deputy Chief of Staff), are amongst the graduates of Imam Sadegh University who have held positions in the thirteenth government of the regime.
