Hashem Khastar (Persian: هاشم خواستار; born June 2, 1953) is a former teacher at the Agriculture Technical High School in Mashhad in northeastern Iran, and an agricultural engineer and the Head of the Mashhad Teachers Union.^[1]

Background

He has been detained several times for defending teachers' rights and participating in rally protests of teachers and was imprisoned from 2009 to 2011 in Mashhad's notorious Vakilabad Prison.^[2]

In a letter he said that "the root of the corruption and all the problems, was Ali Khamenei ", and that he had to be held accountable.^[2]

Khastar had previously been detained in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. Despite being threatened by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on several occasion he had refused to cease his activities.^[3]

On October 23, 2018, he disappeared in the city of Mashhad, and was being detained by the Islamic Republic's Intelligence Ministry at a psychiatric hospital, his wife disclosed in an interview.^[4][3] Hashem Khastar was released a few hours after being taken into custody on Monday, November 5, 2018.^[5]

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