Ahmad Jannati

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Ahmad Dschannati (2020)

Ahmad Dschannati (also called Ayatollah Janati or Ahmad Jannati Mesah , Persian احمد جنتی; * February 23, 1927 in Isfahan ) is an Iranian Ayatollah , politician and chairman of the Guardian Council and the Council of Experts .

Life

Ahmad Dschannati was born as the son of Hashem Dschannati Mesah in the village of Ladan near Isfahan and attended the religious school "Jede Bozorg" in Isfahan. From 1945 he began his studies at the famous theological school in Qom and after completing his studies in 1964 also taught himself at the Haghani school together with the Ayatollah Beheschti and the Ayatollah Saduqi . After the Islamic Revolution on February 20, 1980, he was appointed to the first Guardian Council by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and is now chairman. He is also a member of the Expert Council and the Arbitration Council . He is considered an ultra-religious advocate of the principle of the rule of legal scholars . At times he appears as a Friday preacher in Tehran and has caused some unrest in the past, including among the Islamic clergy.

Along with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi , he is currently one of the most colorful personalities in the government system and a radical opponent of the reform-oriented wing. He condemned the Arab governments for their US-friendly policies. MEMRI documented several of his speeches, in which he announced on February 4, 2005, among other things, that the English were the fathers of the great Satan. He commented on a possible US attack on Iran by saying that martyrdom is the pride of the Iranian people. On November 20, 2005, he labeled non-Muslims as animals. In the election to the Expert Council on December 15, 2006, he only came in 6th place in the constituency of Tehran , and on February 26, 2016 only in the 16th and last place with a mandate, but was elected chairman of the Expert Council.

family

According to Akbar Aalami , a member of the Iranian parliament , Jannati's sons Ali and Hossein and Hossein's wife were activists in the People's Mojahedin (MEK) before the Islamic revolution . After the revolution, Hossein Dschannati was killed by an armed Hezbollahi group in fighting between the People's Mojahedin and supporters of the Islamic Republican Party . Dschannati's daughter-in-law is still a member of the People's Mojahedin and is now said to live abroad and belong to the leadership of the MEK. Ali Dschannati left the MEK again and has since worked for the state television ( Seda wa Sima ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://ana.ir/fa/news/19/160620/
  2. ↑ http://www.yazdfarda.com/news/print/74102.html
  3. ↑ كميسيون حقوق بشر اسلامي بررسي مي‌كند: ( Memento from July 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Wahied Wahdat-Hagh : Iran: Der Ernstfall ( Memento from February 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), on Welt Online , February 1, 2008.
  5. ↑ http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/530.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1384.htm
  7. ↑ http://memri.de/uebersetzungen_analysen/2005_04_OND/iran_castro_08_12_05.pdf ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Iran Report 05/2008 of the Heinrich Böll Institute ( Memento from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 95 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Dschannati, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahmad Jannati Mesah; Ayatollah Janati
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian Ayatollah and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Isfahan