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On May 15, 2021, Ali Ardeshir Larijani entered the race for the upcoming sham Presidential election by registering his candidacy.
Ali Larijani belongs to the faction, aligned with the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Ali Larijani was previously appointed as the head of the board involved in drafting and signing the very unpopular 25-year strategic pact with China by Ali Khamenei.
Ali Larijani was an IRGC Brig. Gen. and played a major role in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.
Ali Larijani after serving for 10 years in the IRGC, became the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance during Hashemi Rafsanjani’s presidency in 1992 and remained in that post until 1994. Ali Larijani played a key role in the censorship of the media and cultural activities.
Ali Khamenei appointed Ali Larijani as the head of the state broadcasting network (IRIB) in 1994, a position he held for the next 10 years.
During his tenure, the regime’s interference in regional states was buoyed by several Arab-language television stations that Larijani set up to disseminate propaganda and ideological indoctrination of Arab youth, especially to Iraq and Lebanon.
Ali Larijani also used the broadcasting network to broadcast forced confessions of imprisoned dissidents and intimidation of the public.
Larijani became Khamenei’s representative in the Supreme National Security Council on January 3, 1996, and in 2005 was appointed as the Secretary for the Supreme National Security Council during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency. In that position, he became the lead negotiator during talks about Iran’s nuclear program with the EU-3.
He was a member of a committee headed by Saeed Emami, the then-Deputy Intelligence Minister, and serial killer, who infamously abducted and murdered numerous dissident intellectuals and writers in Iran in the 1990s. At the same time, he was a member of the Expediency Council and the Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, sitting on almost all consequential agencies of the regime.
In a February 2005 interview with the Fars News Agency, he said, “any concession on the nuclear program is treachery.”
In June 2008, he became the Speaker of the Parliament, a position he held for 12 years.
Larijani’s brothers, all influential in the regime, are heavily implicated in high corruption and profiteering to an extent that the Larijani family name in Iran is today synonymous with rampant bribery and corruption.
Also Known As:
Ali Ardeshir Larijani
Involved In:
Nuclear Weapon Program
Missile Weapon Program
Born:
3 June 1957
Nationality:
Iranian
Country:
Iran
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