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'Ali Ardashir Larijani' (Persian: علی اردشیر لاریجانی; born 1958, in Najaf, Iraq) is an Iranian politician, and the current secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran . He was appointed to this position by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on August 15, 2005 ^[1] replacing Hassan Rowhani. He is one of the two representatives of the Supreme Leader 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. As the secretary of the council, he has reversed the submissive and retroactive policies of the reformists under Hassan Rowhani, who had agreed to systematically suspend all nuclear enrichments without any condition.

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Personal life

Education

Presidential ambitions

Iranian Nuclear Crisis

External links

Video clips

See also

Personal life

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.

Education

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.

Presidential ambitions

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'' (Persian: 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).

Iranian Nuclear Crisis

As Iran's top nuclear envoy he told on April 25 2007 that he expected "new ideas" from senior EU official Javier Solana at talks on resolving the deadlock between Tehran's refusal to freeze its Nuclear programme of Iran and United Nations Security Council demands that it do so.[2]

External links

★ Iranian Nuclear Crisis Timeline

★ Ali Larijani interview Interview with Jon Snow, Channel 4 News, live in Tehran. Mar 6, 2006.

★ The new air Larijani's official campaign website (in Persian).

★ Larijani's biography on his campaign website (in Persian).

★ Frances Harrison, "Iran's Nuclear Negotiator," Interview with BBC News, Nov. 8, 2005.

★ Gareth Smyth. "Larijani's Pragmatist Reputation Faces Severe Challenge," ''Financial Times'' (London), Jan. 10, 2006.

★ Transcript of interview with Roula Khalaf and Gareth Smyth, ''Financial Times'' (London), Jan. 22, 2006.

★ Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Is Like Denying Iran Nuclear Technology Feb. 2005 transcript

Video clips

★ Suspension of Uranium Enrichment Is Like Denying Iran Nuclear Technology Feb. 2005

See also

★ Hassan Rowhani

★ Supreme National Security Council