Ali Larijani

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Ali Larijani while lecturing for his presidential campaign at Sharif University of Technology in March, 2005.

Ali Ardashir Larijani (Persian: علی اردشیر لاریجانی; born 1958) is an Iranian politician, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) since August 14, 2005 (succeeding Hassan Rowhani). He is one of the two representatives of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, to the council. In his post as secretary he effectively functions as the top negotiator on issues of national security, including Iran's nuclear program.

Larijani was a presidential candidate for the 2005 presidential elections, where he ranked sixth, winning 5.94% of the votes. He was also the previous president of the IRIB, installed by the Supreme Leader, and was followed by Ezzatollah Zarghami after serving ten years in the post from 1994 to 2004.

Before his presidency at the IRIB, Larijani served as the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance under President Rafsanjani after Mohammad Khatami's resignation from the post.

Larijani was considered the most important presidential candidate of the conservative alliance for the 2005 presidential elections. He was supported by the Islamic Society of Engineers (ISE), among other conservative groups. He had been announced as the final choice of the conservative Council for Coordination of the Forces of the Revolution (شورای هماهنگی نیروهای انقلاب), which was made from representatives of some influential conservative parties and organizations. But he was the least popular of the three conservative candidates, the others being Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second rank in the first round, winner in the second round) and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (fourth rank in the first round).

Ali Larijani is a son of Ayatollah Hashem Amoli, a brother of Sadegh Larijani (a cleric member of the Guardian Council), Mohammad Javad Larijani, and Fazel Larijani (Iran's cultural attachee in Ottawa). He is also the son-in-law of Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, having married his daughter, and also a cousin of Ahmad Tavakkoli. As a student, he specialized in mathematics and philosophy. He has published books on Immanuel Kant.

In the 1980s, Ali Larijani was acting head of the Revolutionary Guards.

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Dr. Larijani holds a Ph.D. and Masters degree in western philosophy from Tehran University and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Sharif University. Initially he wanted to continue his graduate studies in Computer Science, but changed his subject after consultation with Morteza Motahhari.