Ahmad Sayyed Javadi
| Ahmad Sadr Haj Sayyed Javadi احمد صدر حاجسیدجوادی |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 20 June 1979 – 6 November 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Preceded by | Assodollah Mobasheri |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani |
| Minister of Interior | |
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In office 13 February 1979 – 20 June 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Mehdi Bazargan |
| Preceded by | Shapour Bakhtiar |
| Succeeded by | Hashem Sabbaghian |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 |
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| Constituency | Qazvin |
| Majority | 100,717 (53.40%) |
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| Born | 24 June 1917 Qazvin, Iran |
| Died | 31 March 2013 (aged 95) Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Freedom Movement |
| Religion | Islam |
Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyyed Javadi (24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013) was an Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician, who served as interior minister and justice minister. He was the first interior minister after the 1979 revolution in Iran.
Javadi was born into a devoutly religious family in Qazvin on 24 June 1917. He was the cousin of Ziaeddin Haj Sayyed Javadi, who was a member of the Majlis during the premiership of Mohammad Mosaddegh. He received a law degree and a PhD in political science.
Javadi, along with Mehdi Bazargan, Yadollah Sahabi and Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, founded the Liberation Movement (LMI) (Nehzat-e-Azad-e-Iran) of Iran in 1961. He was appointed prosecutor of Tehran when Ali Amini was prime minister in 1961, and served for eighteen months. When the LMI was banned, Javadi became a member of the opposition group against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Following the Six-Day War in 1967, Javadi was one of the critics of Israel. In 1968, he stated "piety and spirituality have left our society. Instead our hearts have been filled with fear and darkness. We must struggle for justice and attempt to build a society that is modelled after madinah-ye fazeleh [the prelude to the ideal unitarian classless Islamic society]." This view was the common sentiment among Muslim intellectuals of the period in Iran. For Javadi, the solution to the problems experienced in Iranian society was the creation of an Islamic society.
In 1977, he was among the members and founders of the newly formed Human Rights Committee in Iran. Bazargan was elected as the head and Javadi as the vice head of the committee. Javadi was also one of the lawyers of Seyyed Mahmoud Taleghani together with Hasan Nazih in 1977. He also defended Ali Khamenei, Ali Shariati, and Hossein Ali Montazeri during the Pahlavi era.
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