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Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
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Chairman of Expediency Discernment Council | |
In office 14 August 2017 – 24 December 2018 |
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Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Preceded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Succeeded by | Sadeq Larijani |
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts Acting |
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In office 21 October 2014 – 10 March 2015 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Constituency | Razavi Khorasan Province |
Majority | 1,499,109 |
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Born | Najaf, Iraq |
15 August 1948
Died | 24 December 2018 Tehran, Iran |
(aged 70)
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.

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