Mahmoud Alavi

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Mahmoud Alavi
File:محمود-علوی.jpg
Minister of Intelligence
Assumed office
15 August 2013
President Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by Heydar Moslehi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
3 May 1992 – 4 May 2000
Constituency Lamerd
Majority 45,876 (63%)[1]
In office
17 September 1981[2] – 3 May 1988
Constituency Larestan
Personal details
Born (1954-05-04) 4 May 1954 (age 70)
Lamerd, Fars province, Iran
Nationality Iranian
Political party Resistance Front of Islamic Iran
Alma mater Ferdowsi University
Religion Islam

Mahmoud Alavi (محمود علوی in Persian; born 4 May 1954) is an Iranian cleric, politician and the minister of intelligence in Hassan Rouhani's government.

Early life

Alavi was born in Lamerd, Fars province, in 1954.[3][4] He holds a PhD in Islamic jurisprudence and law from Ferdowsi University in Mashad.[5]

Career

Alavi is a cleric and a scholar of Islamic jurisprudence.[6][7] He holds the religious rank of Hojjatoleslam.[8] He is the former head of the political and ideological body of the Iranian Army to which he was appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.[9] Alavi served in the post from 2000 to August 2009.[6][8] In addition, Alavi was Khamenei's special representative in the army until August 2009.[8] He also assumed the post of deputy defense minister.[4]

He served at the Majlis as Tehran representative for four terms during the terms of former presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami.[10][11] He ran for office in the list of Resistance Front of the Islamic Revolution led by Mohsen Rezaee in the 2012 election.[12] However, Alavi's nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council on the grounds that he did not have "practical commitment to Islam and the regime."[12][13]

He is a member of the Assembly of Experts.[6][14] He served as Hasan Rouhani’s liaison officer for the city of Qom and the institutions there in the 2013 presidential elections.[15] Alavi was designated as intelligence minister by Rouhani on 4 August 2013.[16] He was approved for the post on 15 August by the Majlis with 227 Yes votes.[17]

Views

Ali Reza Eshraghi of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that Alavi is a principalist politician in the Iranian political arena.[13] He is, therefore, a conservative figure[18] and close to Mohsen Rezaee.[9] Alavi publicly criticized the Ali Akbar Rafsanjani's disqualification for the 2013 presidential election soon after the election.[6]

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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Intelligence and National Security
2013–present		 Succeeded by
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