Mohsen Araki

Iranian ayatollah

Ayatollah Mohsen Araki


Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 September 2022
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Sadeq Larijani
Member of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 May 2016
Constituency	Markazi Province
Majority	242,146
In office 21 February 1991 – 20 February 2007
Constituency	Khuzestan Province

Personal details
Born	1956 Najaf, Iraq
Website	Official website

Mohsen Araki (Persian: محسن اراکی; Arabic: محسن الأراكي) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer and politician. He is currently a member of the Assembly of Experts and also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. He is a prominent Iranian scholar and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.

In 2022, during 2021–2022 Iranian protests, he advocated for the death penalty for protestors. He argued those who participate in the protests should be found guilty of “corruption on earth.”^[1]

Life

He was born in Najaf, Iraq. He benefited from the Islamic seminary in Najaf and Qom. He speaks fluent Arabic and English and has authored dozens of books in Persian, Arabic, and English. He was the personal representative of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) in London and also the Head of the Islamic Centre of England until 2004.^[2]