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Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani (Persian: محمد محمدی گیلانی) (31 August 1929 – 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, 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. 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."

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

References & notes

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.

External links

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

v t e 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners
Order	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
Related	Mothers of Khavaran Raheleh Rahemipour
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v t e People executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Politicians and noblemen of the Pahlavi period	Amir-Abbas Hoveyda Parviz Nikkhah Javad Saeed Abbas Ali Khalatbari Abdollah Riazi Gholamreza Kianpour Gholamreza Nikpey Farrokhroo Parsa Mohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani Mahmoud Jafarian Mansour Rouhani Manouchehr Azmoun Manutchehr Salimi
Soldiers of the Pahlavi period	Amir Hossein Rabii Ayat Mohaqeqi Pervez Amini Afshar Habib Elghanian Hassan Pakravan Hossein-Ali Bayat Seyyed Javad Zabihi Reza Naji Saeed Mehdiyoun Ali Hojjat Kashani Ali Neshat Mohammad Taghi Majidi Manouchehr Khosrodad Mehdi Rahimi Nader Jahanbani Nasser Moghaddam Nematollah Nassiri
Left-wing politics	Bahram Afzali Hassan Azarfar
Other political opponents	Khosrow Qashqai Sadegh Ghotbzadeh Mona Mahmudnizhad Kamran Samimi Sirous Rowshani
Perpetrators	Ruhollah Khomeini Sadegh Khalkhali Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani Mohammad Reyshahri Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi Asadollah Lajevardi Ali Qoddusi
Category:People executed by Iran

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