Majid Ansari | |
Birth Date: | 30 March 1954 |
Birth Place: | Khanuk, Iran |
Office: | Vice President of Iran for Legal Affairs |
Term Start: | 22 August 2024 |
President: | Masoud Pezeshkian |
Predecessor: | Mohammad Dehghan |
Term Start1: | 12 July 2016 |
Term End1: | 9 August 2017 |
President1: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor1: | Elham Aminzadeh |
Successor1: | Laya Joneydi |
Office2: | Vice President of Iran for Parliamentary Affairs |
Term Start2: | 1 September 2013 |
Term End2: | 12 July 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Lotfollah Forouzandeh |
Term Start3: | 12 October 2004 |
Term End3: | 29 August 2005 |
Predecessor3: | Mohammad-Ali Abtahi |
Office4: | Member of Expediency Discernment Council |
Term Start4: | 16 March 2002 |
Appointer4: | Ali Khamenei |
1Blankname4: | Chairman |
1Namedata4: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
Office5: | Member of Parliament of Iran |
Term Start5: | 1980 |
Term End5: | 2004 |
Constituency5: | Kerman |
Party: | Association of Combatant Clerics |
Majid Ansari (fa|مجید انصاری; born in 1954 in Khanuk, Kerman Province) is an Iranian politician and cleric. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council and Vice President for Legal Affairs since 2024 for second term.He was formerly Vice President for Legal Affairs from 2016 to 2017.
Previously held vice presidency in parliamentary affairs from 2004 to 2005, appointed by President Mohammad Khatami and the second term from 2013 to 2016 under President Hassan Rouhani. On 2 August 2017, Ansari announced that he will not be part of second Rouhani government. Ansari is also a former representative to the Assembly of Experts. Politically, he is a member of the Central Council of Association of Combatant Clerics.
Previously, he has been a representative of Tehran in the Parliament of Iran until 2004. Ansari has openly supported Sadegh Khalkhali, the hanging judge and his serial executions.[1]