Background and career
Alireza Arafi (born 21 December 1959) is an Iranian Shia cleric and politician who has served as a member of the Guardian Council since 2019, and a member of the Assembly of Experts since 2022.
He sat on the Interim Leadership Council, alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, following the assassination of Ali Khamenei until the election of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Arafi has been head of Iran's seminaries since 2016, and the Friday Prayer Imam of Qom since 2015. He was President of Al-Mustafa International University from 2008 to 2018.

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