Key Highlights
- His rapid ascent follows a year of accumulating immense power, where he has effectively taken charge of the country’s most sensitive portfolios, from nuclear negotiations to suppressing internal unrest.
- A Veteran Strategist at the Helm The 67-year-old politician is a seasoned establishment insider.
- Born into an elite clerical family, his career includes time as a Revolutionary Guards commander and 12 years as the Speaker of Parliament.
- In August, he was appointed Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, a role that has seen him sideline the elected president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
- While the president has admitted his own limitations in the face of national crises, Larijani has been the one authorising high-level diplomatic contacts and managing the state's survival plans.
