Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council
In office 14 August 2017 – 24 December 2018
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by	Sadeq Larijani
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts Acting
In office 21 October 2014 – 10 March 2015
Supreme Leader	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Reza Mahdavi Kani
Succeeded by	Mohammad Yazdi
Chief Justice of Iran
In office 14 August 1999 – 14 August 2009
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Mohammad Yazdi
Succeeded by	Sadeq Larijani
Member of Assembly of Experts
In office 24 February 1999 – 24 December 2018
Constituency	Razavi Khorasan Province
Majority	1,499,109
Personal details
Born	(1948-08-15)15 August 1948 Najaf, Iraq
Died	24 December 2018(2018-12-24) (aged 70) Tehran, Iran
Citizenship	Iranian and Iraqi
Political party	Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom Islamic Dawa Party

Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian politician. He was the Chief Justice of Iran from 1999 to 2009. He was born in Najaf, Iraq.

Ayatollah Shahroudi was best known for ordering a moratorium on stoning as a form of the death penalty. However, later it was shown that executions by stoning are still being carried out, in spite of his claims that they have stopped. Stoning is still happening inside prisons, where the public cannot see it.

From August 2017 to December 2018, Shahroudi was Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council.

He died on 24 December 2018 from cancer in Tehran at the age of 70.