Ahmad Jannati
| Ahmad Jannati | |
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| احمد جنتی | |
Jannati in 2015
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| Chairman of the Assembly of Experts | |
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Assumed office 24 May 2016 |
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| Supreme Leader | Ali Khamenei |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Yazdi |
| Chairman of the Guardian Council | |
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Assumed office 17 July 1992 |
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| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani |
| Tehran's Temporary Friday Prayer Imam | |
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Assumed office 3 April 1992 |
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| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
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Assumed office 23 February 1999 |
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| Constituency | Tehran Province |
| Majority | 1,321,130 (29.35%) |
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In office 15 August 1983 – 22 February 1999 |
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| Constituency | Khuzestan Province |
| Member of the Guardian Council | |
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Assumed office 20 February 1980 |
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| Appointed by | Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 February 1927 Isfahan, Iran |
| Political party |
Combatant Clergy Association Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
| Spouse(s) | Fatemeh Mazaheri (1947–2015; her death) |
| Children |
Ali (b. 1949) Hassan (b. 1950) Mohammad Hossein (1952–1981) Mohammad (b. unknown) |
| Residence | Tehran, Iran |
| Profession | Politician |
| Religion | Twelver Shia Islam |
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Ahmad Jannati (Persian: احمد جنتی, born 23 February 1927) is an Iranian Shi'i cleric and a conservative politician. He is also a founding member of the Haghani school of thought and a temporary Friday prayer imam of Tehran. Today, Jannati occupies two prominent posts in Iranian politics as chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body charged with choosing the Supreme Leader, and as chairman of the Guardian Council, the body in charge of checking legislation approved by Majlis with the Constitution and sharia, and approving the candidates in various elections.
Jannati has been a member of the Guardian Council since 1980 and has been its chair since 1988.
During a Friday Prayer on 4 August 2006, Jannati asserted that "support for Hizbollah" was "a duty." Regarding Iraq, around the time its draft constitution was presented to parliament in 2005, he said: "Fortunately, after years of effort and expectations in Iraq, an Islamic state has come to power and the constitution has been established on the basis of Islamic precepts".
In a Friday prayer sermon on 29 January 2010 in Tehran, Jannati "praised Iranian judicial authorities for executing two political dissidents" the day before and "urged officials to continue executing dissidents until opposition protests come to an end."
Jannati sees leniency with the dissidents as un-Islamic.
"God ordered the prophet Muhammad to brutally slay hypocrites and ill-intentioned people who stuck to their convictions. Koran insistently orders such deaths. May God not forgive anyone showing leniency toward the corrupt on Earth."
Responding to clerics such Jannati wanting to speed up executions, Iran's judiciary chief firmly stated his opposition, commenting that it was against the Sharia and Iranian law:
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