Native Name Lang: | fa |
Native Name: | سید محمد علی شهیدی محلاتی |
Seyed Mohammad-Ali Shahidi Mahallati | |
Office: | Vice President of Iran Head of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs |
Term Start: | 15 September 2013 |
Term End: | 6 June 2020 |
President: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor: | Masoud Zaribafan |
Successor: | Saeed Ohadi |
Term Start4: | 2 May 1988 |
Term End4: | 3 May 1992 |
Constituency4: | Mahallat |
Majority4: | 21,255 (51.10%)[1] |
Birth Date: | 9 July 1949 |
Birth Place: | Mahallat, Iran |
Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Hojjatoleslam Sayyid Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati (fa|سید محمد علی شهیدی محلاتی) was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as Director of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs from 2013 to 2020.[2] In 2009, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, established the post of Chief Inspector, and put Shahidi as the first leader. However he was replaced on the July 20, 2011. He was brother-in-law of Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri and Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi.
Mohammad Ali Shahidi was born on July 9, 1949, in Mahallat, Iran. He began his early life, studying in the Hawza, and has earned the rank of Hojjatoleslam, and equivalent of a master's degree. It is known that he came to know Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, from the years at the Hawza.
Shahidi Mahallati was elected as a part of the Parliament of Iran on 2 May 1988. He served for one term, with the term ending on 3 May 1992. It is interesting to say that Shahidi Mahallati was in the parliament, at the same period as Hassan Rouhani. At that term, Shahidi Mahallati's brother in law, was the head of the parliament.
During former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first term, Mahallati was put as the Deputy Foreign Minister for consular affairs, by the Foreign Minister of the time, Manoucher Mottaki.[2]