Ebrahim Amini
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Ebrahim Amini | |
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Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 24 May 2016 – 24 April 2020 | |
Constituency | Tehran Province |
Majority | 1,904,524 |
In office 15 August 1983 – 19 February 2007 | |
Constituency | Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province |
Second Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 1985–2006 | |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | Mohammad Yazdi |
Member of the Expediency Discernment Council | |
In office 17 March 1997 – 24 April 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ebrahim Amini Najafabadi June 30, 1925 Najaf Abad, Isfahan Province, Sublime State of Persia |
Died | April 24, 2020 Qom, Qom Province, Iran | (aged 94)
Nationality | Iranian |
Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
Alma mater | Isfahan Hawza Qom Seminary |
Occupation | Cleric Politician |
Signature | |
Website | www.ibrahimamini.com |
Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini (30 June 1925 – 24 April 2020) was an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader.[1] Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.[2]
Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.[3]
Amini died in April 2020 at the age of 94, at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom.[4]
See also[]
- List of members of Constitutional Amendment Council of Iran
- List of Ayatollahs
- List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts
References[]
- ^ Saeed Kamali Dehghan (31 October 2014), "When the time comes, who will succeed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?", The Guardian, retrieved 24 February 2017
- ^ Seyed Mohammad Lolaki (2019). Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s. Springer Nature. p. 157. ISBN 978-981-15-0477-8.
- ^ "Who will be the next chair of Iran's Assembly of Experts?". 30 March 2016.
- ^ "Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini Passes Away at 94". Ijtihad Network. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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