Ebrahim Amini


Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini was an Iranian politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.
Amini was known as a critic of the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
Amini died in April 2020 at the age of 94, at the Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Qom.