Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour ( Persian : سید علی‌اکبر محتشمی‌پور ‎; 30 August 1947 – 7 June 2021), also known as Mohtashami , was an Iranian Shia cleric and former interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran . He was active in the Iranian Revolution and is seen as a founder of the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon as well as one of the "radical elements advocating the export of the revolution ," in the Iranian clerical hierarchy.