Ali Larijani

**Ali Larijani** (, ; born 3 June 1957) is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Iran from 2008 until 2020.

## Infobox (academic)

- **child**: yes
- **thesis1 title**: Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics
- **thesis1 url**: https://thesis2.ut.ac.ir/thesis/UTCatalog/UTThesis/Forms/ThesisBrief.aspx?thesisID=F4EDFC19-1E30-43B1-B3A7-40F7A391F655
- **thesis1 year**: 1995
- **doctoral advisor**: Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
- **academic advisors**: Karim Mojtahedi
- **influences**: Immanuel Kant
- **discipline**: Philosophy
- **workplaces**: University of Tehran


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **image**: Sixth International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada, Tehran (15) (crop of Ali Larijani).jpg
- **order**: List of Speakers of the Parliament of Iran, 22nd Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- **deputy**: Mohammad-Reza Bahonar
Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi Fard, Hassan Aboutorabi
Masoud Pezeshkian
- **term start**: 5 June 2008
- **term end**: 28 May 2020

- **predecessor**: Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
- **successor**: Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
- **office2**: Supreme National Security Council, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council
- **term start2**: 15 August 2005
- **term end2**: 20 October 2007
- **president2**: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- **deputy2**: Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli
- **predecessor2**: Hassan Rouhani
- **successor2**: Saeed Jalili
- **office3**: Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
- **term start3**: 11 August 1992
- **term end3**: 15 February 1994

- **president3**: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- **predecessor3**: Mohammad Khatami
- **successor3**: Mostafa Mir-Salim
- **office4**: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
- **term start4**: 13 February 1994
- **term end4**: 23 May 2004
- **appointer4**: Ali Khamenei
- **predecessor4**: Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Hashemi
- **successor4**: Ezzatollah Zarghami
- **term start5**: 14 February 1981
- **term end5**: July 1981
- **appointer5**: Supervisory council
- **predecessor5**: Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur and Abdollah Nouri <small>(Co-caretakers)</small>
- **successor5**: Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Hashemi
- **office6**: Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- **term start6**: 28 May 2008
- **term end6**: 28 May 2020
- **constituency6**: Qom (electoral district), Qom
- **majority6**: 270,382 (%65.17)
- **birth name**: Ali Ardashir Larijani
- **birth place**: Najaf, Karbala Governorate, Karbala Liwa, Kingdom of Iraq
<small>(now Iraq)</small>
- **nationality**: Iranian peoples, Iranian
- **party**: Islamic Coalition Party
- **spouse**: Farideh Motahhari
- **children**: 4
- **parents**: Mirza Hashem Amoli (father)
- **alma mater**: Aryamehr University of Technology
University of Tehran
- **signature**: Ali Larijani signature.svg
- **allegiance**: Islamic Republic of Iran Armed Forces, Iran
- **branch**: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Revolutionary Guards
- **serviceyears**: 1982–1992
- **rank**: Brigadier general
- **battles**: Iran–Iraq War