Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini (; June 30, 1925 – April 24, 2020) was an Iranian

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

politician who was a member of the

Assembly of Experts The Assembly of Experts (), also translated as the Assembly of Experts of the Leadership or as the Council of Experts, is the deliberative body empowered to appoint the Supreme Leader of Iran. All directly elected members must first be vetted ...

. He was also a member of the

Expediency Discernment Council The Expediency Discernment Council of the System ( ''Majma'-e Tašxis-e Maslahat-e Nezâm'') is an administrative assembly of Iran appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Supreme Leader and was created upon the revision to the Constitution of ...

, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. 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.

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Ibrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi was born in 1925 in Najafabad city. He completed his primary education in Najaf Abad and entered Isfahan seminary in 1943 and studied Arabic literature, logic, principles and jurisprudence. In 1944, he migrated to Qom seminary to continue his education, and he studied fiqh and principles from Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Seyyed Mohammad Taqi Khansari, Seyyed Mohammad Hojjat Kohkamri, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini, and studied the philosophy of Asfar under Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai. At the beginning of the victory of the revolution, he received two decrees from Sayyed Ruhollah Khomeini. Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president

Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian principlist and nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Counci ...

. Amini died in April 2020 at the age of 94, at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in

Qom Qom (; ) is a city in the Central District of Qom County, Qom province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. It is the seventh largest metropolis and also the seventh largest city in Iran. The city is ...

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1925 births 2020 deaths Iranian ayatollahs Iranian Islamists Members of the Assembly of Experts Members of the Expediency Discernment Council People from Najafabad Shia Islamists Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom members Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran Burials at Fatima Masumeh Shrine {{Iran-politician-stub

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