Mohammad Yazdi

Ayatollah
Mohammad Yazdi
Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
محمد یزدی
	Yazdi in 2019
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
	In office; 10 March 2015 – 24 May 2016
Preceded by	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Succeeded by	Ahmad Jannati
Chief Justice of Iran
	In office; 15 August 1989 – 14 August 1999
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Succeeded by	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Member of the Assembly of Experts
	In office; 21 February 1991 – 23 May 2016
Constituency	Tehran Province
Majority	970,192 (4th assembly)
Member of the Parliament of Iran
	In office; 28 May 1984 – 27 May 1988
Constituency	Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority	156,049 (93.1%)
	In office; 28 May 1980 – 27 May 1984
Constituency	Qom
Majority	129,678 (83.1%)
Member of Assembly of Experts for the Constitution
	In office; 19 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
Constituency	Bakhtaran Province
Majority	101,735 (46%)
Personal details
Born	2 July 1931; Isfahan, Imperial State of Persia
Died	9 December 2020 (aged 89); Qom, Iran
Resting place	Fatima Masumeh Shrine
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Combatant Clergy Association; Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom
Other political; affiliations	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)
Spouse	Batoul Azari (died 2020)
Children	4

Mohammad Yazdi (Persian: محمد یزدی; 2 July 1931^[2] – 9 December 2020)^[3] was an Iranian conservative and principlist cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999. In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembly of Experts, defeating Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, by a vote count of 47 to 24.^[4]

^ "همسر آیت‌الله یزدی دار فانی را وداع گفت | خبرگزاری فارس". www.farsnews.ir.
^ Cite error: The named reference mehdi2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Secretariat of Assembly of Experts, (Khobregane-Mellat), P. 655
^ Erdbrink, Thomas (10 March 2015). "Conservative Cleric Chosen to Lead Iranian Council". The New York Times. Tehran. Retrieved 18 May 2016.