Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi

Hassan Rahimpour-Azghadi (, born 1964/1965) is an Iranian conservative public speaker, conspiracy theorist and ideologue. He has been a member of Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution since 2003. Early life and career Rahimpour-Azghadi was born in 1964 He has studied at the Qom Seminary, although he does not wear clerical clothing.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed him as a member of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution in 2003, and a member of the Council of Representatives of the Supreme Leader in Universities in 2007. 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.

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]". According to Mehdi Khalaji, he advised Ali Khamenei on social issues.

Since he has not published any academic works, his credentials has been questioned by critics, to which he has responded "I have a postdoc in book reading".