Majid Ansari Explained

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]

Notes and References

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