Majid Ansari (Persian: 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.
Majid Ansari | |
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![]() Ansari in 2021 | |
Vice President of Iran for Legal Affairs | |
Assumed office 22 August 2024 | |
President | Masoud Pezeshkian |
Preceded by | Mohammad Dehghan |
In office 12 July 2016 – 9 August 2017 | |
President | Hassan Rouhani |
Preceded by | Elham Aminzadeh |
Succeeded by | Laya Joneydi |
Vice President of Iran for Parliamentary Affairs | |
In office 1 September 2013 – 12 July 2016 | |
President | Hassan Rouhani |
Preceded by | Lotfollah Forouzandeh |
Succeeded by | Hossein Ali Amiri |
In office 12 October 2004 – 29 August 2005 | |
President | Mohammad Khatami |
Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Abtahi |
Succeeded by | Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi (Parliamentary and Legal Affairs) |
Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
Assumed office 16 March 2002 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Chairman | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
Member of Parliament of Iran | |
In office 1980–2004 | |
Constituency | Kerman |
Personal details | |
Born | Khanuk, Iran | 30 March 1954
Political party | Association of Combatant Clerics |
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]
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