Mohsen Araki
Mohsen Araki | |
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محسن اراکی | |
Araki in 2019 | |
| Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 20 September 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Sadeq Larijani |
| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
| 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 | 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Website | Official website |
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Mohsen Araki (Persian: محسن اراکی; Arabic: محسن الأراكي; born 1955) 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".