Ebrahim Amini
Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini (30 June 1925 – 24 April 2020) was an Iranian 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]
Ebrahim Amini | |
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 Amini in 2016 | |
| 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 | Mohammad Mehdi Rabbani Amlishi |
| 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, Iran |
| Died | April 24, 2020 (aged 94) Qom, Qom Province, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Political party | Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom |
| Alma mater | Isfahan Hawza Qom Seminary |
| Occupation | Cleric Politician |
| Signature |  |
| Website | www.ibrahimamini.com |
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
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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