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Iranian Ayatollah

Ahmad Jannati (born 23 February 1927) is an Iranian conservative politician. He was born in Ladan, Isfahan. Jannati is known for his anti LGBT rhetoric and opposition to secularism. He is also a founding member of the Haghani school of thought. As of now, he occupies two prominent posts in Iranian politics namely as chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body charged with choosing the Supreme Leader, and as chairman of the Guardian Council, the body in charge of checking legislation approved by Majlis with the Constitution and sharia, and approving the candidates in various elections. Although many believe that he is too old to be running two of the most significant organisations in the country, however, the trust that Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader has in Janati, has kept him in power despite all the criticism.

Jannati has been a member of the Guardian Council since 1980 and has been its chair since 1988. In 2016, he became the chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body in charge of appointing the Supreme Leader. He was reappointed to the earlier post in 2022.

During a Friday Prayer on 4 August 2006, Jannati asserted that "support for Hezbollah" was "a duty." Regarding Iraq, around the time its draft constitution was presented to parliament in 2005, he said: "Fortunately, after years of effort and expectations in Iraq, an Islamic state has come to power and the constitution has been established on the basis of Islamic precepts".

In a Friday prayer sermon on 29 January 2010 in Tehran, Jannati praised Iranian judicial authorities for executing two political dissidents the day before and urged officials to continue executing dissidents until opposition protests end. Jannati sees leniency with the dissidents as un Islamic. "God ordered the prophet Muhammad to brutally slay hypocrites and ill intentioned people who stuck to their convictions. Koran insistently orders such deaths. May God not forgive anyone showing leniency toward the corrupt on Earth." Responding to clerics such as Jannati wanting to speed up executions, Iran's judiciary chief firmly stated his opposition, commenting that it was against the Sharia and Iranian law: "Political assumptions should not influence judicial investigations because we won't have a response before God should an innocent person be punished due to hasty action."

Jannati takes a strong stand in favor of compulsory hijab, or covering for women. In June 2010, he spoke out against Iranian President Ahmadinejad for his alleged laxness on compulsory hijab in Iran. After Ahmadinejad proposed a "cultural campaign" to combat loose hijab rather than a police crackdown, Jannati responded, "Drug traffickers are hanged, terrorists are executed and robbers are punished for their crimes, but when it comes to the law of God, which is above human rights," some individuals "stay put and speak about cultural programs."

According to a poll conducted in March 2016 by Information and Public Opinion Solutions LLC (iPOS) among Iranian citizens, Jannati has 21% approval and 31% disapproval ratings and thus a –10% net popularity, while 36% of Iranian people don't recognize the name. Some say Jannati has become a target of ageist stereotyping in Iran, However as he is 97 years old people are wondering when it is a suitable time for him to retire, taking into account that Janati said a couple of years ago that "young revolutionaries" should occupy key posts in the country. a quote that arose many criticism towards him.

In February 2020, the U. S. Treasury Department sanctioned Jannati for "preventing free and fair elections in Iran."

Jannati's wife was Sediqeh Mazaheri, with whom he had four sons. She died in 2015, and he later remarried. His son Hossein Jannati was a member of People's Mujahedin of Iran and was killed in a street battle by the Islamic Republic security forces in 1981. He is also the father of Ali Jannati, who served as Minister of Culture.