Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani

Iranian Ayatollah (1929-2014)

Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani

محمد محمدی گیلانی

Gilani in 2009

Assembly of Experts member
In office
14 July 1983 – 7 July 2014
Guardian Council member
In office
1986–1992
Constituency| Tehran Province
Personal details
Born| (1929-08-31)August 31, 1929
Rey, Iran
Died| 9 July 2014(2014-07-09) (aged 84)
Tehran, Iran

Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani (Persian: محمد محمدی گیلانی) (31 August 1929[1] - 9 July 2014) was a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the chief justice of the supreme court of Iran,[2] a position different from the head of the judiciary.

Gilani was a judge of Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Court for 1980–85. Later, he was a member of the Guardian Council between 1986 and 1992.[3] Gilani was one of the judges that handed out death sentences to protestors during the 1981–1982 Iran Massacres. In a press conference, Gilani justified the trials and executions of the young girls. "By the Islamic canon," he stated, "a nine-year-old girl is mature. So there is no difference for us between a nine-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man."[4][5]

Gilani is also known for having signed the death warrants of Baháʼí Faith leaders in the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. [6]

## References & notes

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1. ^ Biography of Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani citytomb.com
2. ^ A. Savyon, Conservatives and Reformists Debate Public Flogging, MEMRI, Iran: Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 80, 7 December 2001
3. ^ "Ayatollah Mohammadi Gilani passes away - Tehran Times". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
4. ^ "Iran: Terror in the Name of God". Time.com.
5. ^ "Dream of Iranian revolution turns into a nightmare". csmonitor.
6. ^ ""Others" In Their Own Land". YouTube. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-09-30.

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* Experts Assembly election results for Tehran
* Chronology of Events in Iran, August 2004

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* Ruhollah Khomeini

Perpetrators|

* Ebrahim Raisi
* Mostafa Pourmohammadi
* Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
* Majid Ansari
* Asadollah Lajevardi
* Alireza Avayi

Influential sponsors|

* Ahmad Khomeini
* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
* Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili
* Ali Khamenei
* Mohammad Reyshahri
* Mohsen Rezaee

Opponents|

* Hussein-Ali Montazeri
* Sadiq al-Shirazi

Related parties and organizations|

* People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
* Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian
* Fedaian Organisation
* Tudeh Party of Iran
* Worker's Way
* Komalah
* Communist Party of Iran
* Organization of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class

Buried|

* Khavaran cemetery

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* Mothers of Khavaran
* Raheleh Rahemipour
* Political repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Military officers and Soldiers of the Pahlavi period|

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Perpetrators|

* Ruhollah Khomeini
* Sadegh Khalkhali
* Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani
* Mohammad Reyshahri
* Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi
* Asadollah Lajevardi
* Ali Qoddusi

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