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Iranian leader Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a close hard-line cleric, has appointed Ahmad Khatami as head of the Guardian Council, replacing Muhammad Yazdi, who resigned due to his advanced age.
According to the Iranian news agency “IRNA”, Khamenei issued a decree saying that Yazdi had resigned from the council “due to physical complications and aging”, 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” clergyman because his sermons assert absolute loyalty to Khamenei and attack anyone who criticizes him.
Ahmed Khatami
And in July 2013, Ahmed Khatami declared that he believed that “Wilayat al-Faqih is the sole ruler of the system” and that “no one, not even the president-elect, has the right to take a position against Wilayat al-Faqih” and stressed that whoever 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.
