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Iran announced Muhammad Yazdi’s resignation from the Guardian Council due to his advanced age, and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei replaced him with hard-line cleric Ahmad Khatami.
According to the Iranian news agency “IRNA”, Khamenei issued a decision saying Yazdi had resigned from the council “due to physical complications and old age”, describing his presence on the council as “values”.
This is while Ahmed Jannati, head of the Guardian Council, Muhammad Yazdi is five years older.
Muhammad Yazdi was born in 1931 and became a member of the Council of Guardians following the resignation of Safi Kilbakani in 1988, by order of Khomeini, the mentor of the regime at the time, but after a year he was appointed head of the judiciary and remained in his post until he returned to the Guardian Council in 1999.
As for Ahmed Khatami, who replaced Muhammad Yazdi, he was born in 1960 in Semnan, and is known to be an “extremist” cleric because his sermons assert absolute loyalty to Khamenei and attack anyone who criticizes him.
In July 2013, Ahmed Khatami stated that he believed that “Wilayat al-Faqih is the sole ruling authority of the regime” and that “no one, not even the president-elect, has the right to speak out against Wilayat al-Faqih”, emphasizing that whoever who opposes Wilayat al-Faqih “must await the consequences.” .
The Guardian Council is the highest supervisory body in Iran and oversees the elections, including the acceptance and rejection of the candidates’ eligibility, and is made up of 12 members, 6 of whom are clerics who are directly appointed jurists the guide and 6 jurists nominated by the parliament and whose appointment is also approved by the guide.
