Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i Net Worth

Background and career

Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i (born 29 September 1956) is an Iranian politician and Islamic jurist who has served as the 8th Chief Justice of Iran since 2021. He briefly served as one of the three members of the Interim Leadership Council in March 2026 following the assassination of Ali Khamenei before the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader of Iran.

Following the February 2026 assassination of Ali Khamenei, Mohseni-Eje'i served on the Interim Leadership Council alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and cleric Alireza Arafi. The council's first and only composition acted as Supreme Leader of Iran from 1 to 8 March 2026.

He previously was the Iranian minister of intelligence from 2005 until July 2009, when he was abruptly dismissed. He was sanctioned by the U.S. State Department and the European Union for his role in repressing the 2009 post-election protests. The E.U. accused Mohseni-Eje'i of overseeing "the detention and torture of, and the extraction of false confessions under pressure from, hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents and reformist politicians". He also held a number of other governmental posts since 1984.