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Ali Akbar Velayati

1945 - Today

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Ali Akbar Velayati (Persian: علی‌اکبر ولایتی ; born 24 June 1945) is an Iranian principlist politician and physician. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Velayati is a distinguished professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, senior adviser to the Supreme Leader in international affairs and head of the board of founders and the board of trustees of the Islamic Azad University. He is also a member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame, Expediency Discernment Council's President of Center for Strategic Research, senior fellow of Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, and also a former member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Ali Akbar Velayati is the 11,777th most popular politician (down from 11,501st in 2024), the 298th most popular biography from Iran (up from 308th in 2019) and the 146th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ali Akbar Velayati ranks 11,777 out of 19,576. Before him are Manlia Scantilla, Hristo Lukov, Karl Kaufmann, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, and Abe no Hirafu. After him are Egon Klepsch, Elvira of Castile, Countess of Toulouse, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus, Sewadjkare, and Gabriel Almond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Ali Akbar Velayati ranks 282. Before him are John Perkins, Roger Donaldson, Polad Bülbüloğlu, Martin Hellman, Noel Redding, and Roger Spottiswoode. After him are Rita Coolidge, Faina Melnik, Frans Janssens, Carrie Snodgress, Yuri Antonov, and Michel Vautrot.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Akbar Velayati ranks 298 out of 631. Before him are Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Majid Majidi (1959), Malek Jahan Khanom (1805), and Sohrab Sepehri (1928). After him are Lady Adela (1847), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), and Behrouz Vossoughi (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Ali Akbar Velayati ranks 146. Before him are Mehdi Karroubi (1937), Mostafa Chamran (1932), Imad al-Dawla (892), Ahmad Qavam (1876), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), and Malek Jahan Khanom (1805). After him are Lady Adela (1847), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Mojtaba Khamenei (1969), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945).

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