Mohammad Yazdi

Mohammad Yazdi
محمد یزدی
Yazdi in 2019
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
In office
10 March 2015 – 24 May 2016
Preceded byMohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Succeeded byAhmad Jannati
Chief Justice of Iran
In office
15 August 1989 – 14 August 1999
Appointed byAli Khamenei
Preceded byAbdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
Succeeded byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
21 February 1991 – 23 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran Province
Majority970,192 (4th assembly)
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1984 – 27 May 1988
ConstituencyTehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority156,049 (93.1%)
In office
28 May 1980 – 27 May 1984
ConstituencyQom
Majority129,678 (83.1%)
Member of Assembly of Experts for the Constitution
In office
19 August 1979 – 15 November 1979
ConstituencyBakhtaran Province
Majority101,735 (46%)
Personal details
Born(1931-07-02)2 July 1931
Isfahan, Imperial State of Persia
Died9 December 2020(2020-12-09) (aged 89)
Qom, Iran
Resting placeFatima Masumeh Shrine
NationalityIranian
Political partyCombatant Clergy Association
Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)
Spouse
Batoul Azari
(died 2020)
[1]
Children4

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]

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