Mohammad Javad Larijani

Mohammad-Javad Larijani محمد جواد لاریجانی


Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 28 May 1984 – 28 May 2000
Constituency	Amol
Personal details
Born	1951 (age 65–66) Najaf, Iraq
Residence	Tehran, Iran
Religion	Twelver Shi'a Islam

Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani (Persian: محمد جواد اردشیر لاریجانی‎‎) (born 1951) is an Iranian conservative politician, diplomat and mathematical logician. He is currently a top adviser to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in foreign affairs and secretary of High Council for Human rights, Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran.

He has been a key planner of Iran's foreign policy, and led the ceasefire negotiations after Iran–Iraq War.

Larijani is the son of Ayatollah Mirza Hashem Amoli and a brother of Ali Larijani, the current chairman of the Parliament and Sadegh Larijani, the current chief justice. Larijani is a cousin of Ahmad Tavakkoli, who is the current director of Majlis Research Center.

Larijani, raised in a religious family, graduated from a hawza before starting his higher education in electrical engineering in Sharif University of Technology, wearing the uniform for the full four years. He later continued his studies outside Iran, in the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a professor at Imam Sadegh University and Sharif University of Technology.