Abbas Vaez-Tabasi

Vaez Tabasi hailed from a family of Mashhadi origin.{{cite web|last=Bar |first=Shmuel |title=Iranian Defense Doctrine and Decision Making |url=http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_uploads/2615iraniandefense1.pdf |work=Institute for Policy and Strategy |accessdate=29 July 2013 |year=2004 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402141606/http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2615IranianDefense1.pdf |archivedate=2 April 2012 }} He was born on 25 June 1935. He began his education when he was only 12 years old in various seminaries.{{Cite web|url=http://en.abna24.com/service/iran/archive/2016/03/04/738737/story.html|title = Major Iranian Cleric Ayatollah Vaez Tabasi Passes Away|date = 4 March 2016}}

Vaez Tabasi was a member of Islamic Republican Party's central council,{{cite thesis |last=Mohammadighalehtaki|first=Ariabarzan|date=2012|title=Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat)|type=Ph.D. thesis|publisher=Durham University|url=http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3507/|page=160}} the Expediency Discernment Council and the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was also the head of the Astan Quds Razavi.

In 2006, he was elected to the Assembly of Experts[https://archive.today/20070721041909/http://www.todaylink.ir/go/?id=3103 Suspended] to the surprise of some observers.[http://sharifnews.com/print.php?21781 Sharifnews.com:: نتایج انتخابات خبرگان در ۲۵ استان] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222242/http://sharifnews.com/print.php?21781 |date=September 27, 2007 }} However, he retired after declining to run in 2016 election.

In May, 2008, Abbas Palizad made declarations at Shiraz Law University, and a few other institutes, alleging that Tabasi, alongside numerous other politicians, had been implicated in money laundering, illicit trade operations, and the establishment of an illicit underground network.

Vaez Tabasi's daughter married Supreme Leader Khamenei's son, Sayyid Hassan.

On 2 November 2015, it was announced that he was suffering from cancer. On 27 February 2016, he was hospitalized due to respiratory complications. After a few days of hospitalization, Vaez died on 4 March. He died at the age of 80. Following his death, three days mourning was declared in Khorasan province.{{cn|date=June 2021}} His funeral was held on the following day with Ali Khamenei and other officials like President Hassan Rouhani attending the ceremony. He was buried at the Imam Reza shrine.

Following his death, all traces of his wealth vanished, leaving his family unable to assert any rights to his estate.

Vaez Tabasi, Ali Khamenei and Syed Abdul Karim Hashemi Nejad were the core of clerics in Mashhad revolutionary activities revolving around the Holy shrine of Imam Reza they managed. He was heavily influenced by the Navvab Safavi during the years 1952 to 1955 in his speeches against the Pahlavi regime takeoff and the speech was prohibited again in 1955 and continued until the fall of the Pahlavi regime.

Abbas Vaez Tabasi was first arrested in 1952 and was in SAVAK prison.

Abbas Vaez Tabasi first in the year 1955 Mohammad-Javad Bahonar in Rafsanjan was invited to give a speech at a ceremony to be met. Bahonar was speaking before a meeting with issues raised in speeches which were over. After the speech, he was banned from speech.{{cite book|last1=al-monitor|title=Iran names head of country's wealthiest foundation|date=6 March 2016 |url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/tabasi-endowment-imam-reza-astan-quds-razavi.html}}

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