Editing Majid Ansari

{{short description|Iranian politician and cleric (born 1954)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Majid Ansari
| image = Majid Ansari 2021 (3x4 cropped).jpg
|caption          = Ansari in 2021
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|3|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Khanuk]], [[Iran]]
| death_date  = 
| death_place = 
|office             = [[Vice President of Iran]]<br>for Legal Affairs
|term_start         = 22 August 2024 
|term_end           = 
|president          = [[Masoud Pezeshkian]]
|predecessor        = [[Mohammad Dehghan]]
|successor          = 
|term_start1        = 12 July 2016
|term_end1          = 9 August 2017 
|president1         = [[Hassan Rouhani]]
|predecessor1       = [[Elham Aminzadeh]]
|successor1         = [[Laya Joneydi]]
| office2 = [[Vice President of Iran]]<br>for Parliamentary Affairs
| term_start2 = 1 September 2013
| term_end2 =  12 July 2016
| president2 = [[Hassan Rouhani]] 
| predecessor2 = [[Lotfollah Forouzandeh]]
| successor2 = [[Hossein Ali Amiri]] 
| term_start3 = 12 October 2004
| term_end3 = 29 August 2005
| president3 = [[Mohammad Khatami]] 
| predecessor3 = [[Mohammad-Ali Abtahi]]
| successor3 = [[Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi]] {{small|(Parliamentary and Legal Affairs)}}
| office4             = Member of [[Expediency Discernment Council]]
| term_start4         = 16 March 2002
| term_end4           =
| appointer4          = [[Ali Khamenei]]
| 1blankname4         = Chairman
| 1namedata4          = [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]]<br />[[Ali Movahedi-Kermani]] (Acting)<br />[[Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]]<br />[[Sadeq Larijani]]
| office5 = [[Parliament of Iran|Member of Parliament of Iran]]
| term_start5 = 1980
| term_end5 = 2004
| constituency5 = [[Kerman]]
| alma_mater = 
| party = [[Association of Combatant Clerics]]
| website = 
}}
'''Majid Ansari''' ({{langx|fa|مجید انصاری}}; born in 1954 in [[Khanuk]], [[Kerman Province]]) is an Iranian politician and cleric. He is currently member of the [[Expediency Discernment Council]] and Vice President for Legal Affairs since 2024 for second term.
He was formerly Vice President for Legal Affairs from 2016 to 2017.

Previously held vice presidency in parliamentary affairs from 2004 to 2005, appointed by President [[Mohammad Khatami]] and the second term from 2013 to 2016 under President [[Hassan Rouhani]]. On 2 August 2017, Ansari announced that he will not be part of [[Government of Hassan Rouhani (2013–present)|second Rouhani government]]. Ansari is also a former representative to the [[Assembly of Experts]]. Politically, he is a member of the Central Council of [[Association of Combatant Clerics]].

Previously, he has been a representative of [[Tehran]] in the [[Islamic Consultative Assembly|Parliament of Iran]] until 2004. Ansari has openly supported [[Sadegh Khalkhali]], the hanging judge and his serial executions.<ref>[http://www.iran-3.com/affiche.php?type=news&id=98 ! خاتمی در مراسم ترحيم شيخ صادق خلخالی<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008141917/http://www.iran-3.com/affiche.php?type=news&id=98 |date=2007-10-08 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Iranian Islamic religious leaders]]
[[Category:Vice Presidents of Iran for Parliamentary Affairs]]
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[[Category:Association of Combatant Clerics politicians]]
[[Category:Members of the Expediency Discernment Council]]
[[Category:Members of the Assembly of Experts]]
[[Category:1954 births]]
[[Category:Members of the 5th Islamic Consultative Assembly]]
[[Category:Members of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly]]
[[Category:Iranian wardens]]
[[Category:Vice Presidents of Iran for Legal Affairs]]
[[Category:Heads of reformist fractions in Islamic Consultative Assembly]]
[[Category:1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners]]

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