Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
Secretary of the Guardian Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 July 1992[1]
Appointed by
Ali Khamenei
Preceded by
Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
Tehran's Temporary Friday Prayer Imam
In office 3 April 1992[2] – 11 March 2018[3]
Appointed by
Ali Khamenei
Member of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 February 1999
Constituency
Tehran Province
Majority
1,321,130 (29.35%)
In office 15 August 1983[4] – 22 February 1999
Constituency
Khuzestan Province
Member of the Guardian Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 February 1980[5]
Appointed by
Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei
Personal details
Born
(1927-02-23) 23 February 1927 (age 97)[6] Isfahan, Imperial State of Persia
Political party
Combatant Clergy Association Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom[7]
Spouse(s)
First spouse (divorced) Sediqeh Mazaheri (1947–2015; her death) Third spouse (2017–2023)[8]
Children
4, including Ali
Residence(s)
Tehran, Iran
Profession
Politician, cleric
Ahmad Jannati (born 23 February 1927) is an Iranian conservative politician. He was born in Ladan, Isfahan. Jannati is known for his anti-LGBT rhetoric and opposition to secularism.[9] He is also a founding member of the Haghani school of thought.
As of now, he occupies two prominent posts in Iranian politics namely as chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body charged with choosing the Supreme Leader, and as chairman of the Guardian Council,[10] the body in charge of checking legislation approved by Majlis with the Constitution and sharia, and approving the candidates in various elections. Although many believe that he is too old to be running two of the most significant organisations in the country, however, the trust that Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader has in Janati, has kept him in power despite all the criticism.[11]
^اعتراف جنتی: سرکوب کردیم، نابود نشدند (in Persian). Rooz Online. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
^ائمه جمعه تهران؛ از حضوری ۳ هفتهای تا ۴۲۴ حضور (in Persian). Fars News Agency. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
^موافقت با کنارهگیری آیت الله جنتی از امامت جمعه تهران
^"1982 Assembly of Experts Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 19 October 2015, retrieved 10 August 2015
^همه چیز درباره آیت الله احمد جنتی (in Persian). Iranian Students' News Agency. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
^"Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati".
^سايت اطلاع رساني شوراي نگهبان/آيت الله احمد جنتي (in Persian). Guardian Council. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
^همسر آیتالله جنتی درگذشت (in Persian)
^"Secretary of Iranian Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: I Spit in the Face of the West, which Has Made Homosexuality Official and Legal".
^Iranian cleric says UK embassy staff face trial 3 July 2009
^"Iran's Supreme Leader Reinstates 95-Year-Old Cleric In Key Post". iranintl.com. 16 July 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
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8-year term. The new assembly was opened on 24 May 2016 and selected AhmadJannati as chairman of the Fifth Assembly. The election of 88 members of the...
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court Legislative council (overseeing parliament) Leadership Secretary AhmadJannati since 17 July 1992 Structure Seats 12 Political groups Dominated by...
Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, AhmadJannati and others, ruled that all music and instrument playing is haram, no...
Assembly of Experts, the voters also changed the officeholder. However, AhmadJannati placed 16th and got reelected. Compared to the previous term, 38% of...
until his resignation on 19 October 2016. Jannati was born in 1949. He is the son of Ayatollah AhmadJannati, head of Iranian Guardian Council and Tehran's...
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Khamenei Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Assembly of Experts Chairman: AhmadJannati Executive President (list) Ebrahim Raisi First Vice President (list)...
Khamenei Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Assembly of Experts Chairman: AhmadJannati Executive President (list) Ebrahim Raisi First Vice President (list)...
changed his district to ceremonially run against Raisi. Ultraconservative Ahmad Khatami was re-elected in province of Kerman, and Mohammad Saeedi is Qom’s...
the Aftasi Sayyids, whose lineage supposedly reached to Sultan ul-Ulama Ahmad, known as Sultan Sayyid, a grandchild of Shia fourth Imam, Ali ibn Husayn...
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Indiana Series in Middle East Studies. Indiana University Press. pp. 201–204. Ahmad Ashraf and Ali Banuazizi (2001), "Iran's Tortuous Path Toward "Islamic Liberalism""...
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Khamenei Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Assembly of Experts Chairman: AhmadJannati Executive President (list) Ebrahim Raisi First Vice President (list)...
Khamenei Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist Assembly of Experts Chairman: AhmadJannati Executive President (list) Ebrahim Raisi First Vice President (list)...
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