Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (Persian: غلامعلی حداد عادل; born 9 May 1945) is an Iranian philosopher, conservative and principlist politician and former chairman of the Parliament. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
غلامعلی حداد عادل
Haddad-Adel in 2023
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Assumed office
14 March 2012
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting)
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
In office
16 March 2002  29 May 2004
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded byMehdi Karroubi
4th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran
In office
6 June 2004  27 May 2008
Acting: 29 May – 5 June 2004
DeputyMohammad-Reza Bahonar
Hassan Aboutorabi
Preceded byMehdi Karroubi
Succeeded byAli Larijani
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2000  27 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority1,119,474 (47.94%)
Personal details
Born
Gholam-Ali Mashhad Mohammad-Ali Haddad

(1945-05-09) 9 May 1945
Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Political partyPopular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces
Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Republic Party (1980–1987)
RelativesMojtaba Khamenei (son-in-law)
Ali Khamenei (co-fathers-in-law)
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
Shiraz University
Signature
WebsiteOfficial weblog

He was the first non-cleric in the post since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was one of the candidates in the 2013 presidential election but withdrew on 10 June, four days before the election. He is part of "neo-principalist" group in the Iranian political scene.

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