Alireza Arafi

Ayatollah Alireza Arafi
علی رضا اعرافی
Arafi in 2020
Member of the Interim Leadership Council
In office 1 March 2026 – 8 March 2026 Serving with Masoud Pezeshkian and Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
Preceded by	Ali Khamenei (as Supreme Leader)
Succeeded by	Mojtaba Khamenei (as Supreme Leader)
Member of the Guardian Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 2019
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Mohammad Momen
Member of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 March 2022
Constituency	Tehran Province
Majority	1,293,072
Head of Seminaries
Incumbent
Assumed office 2016
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Qom's Friday Prayer Imam
Incumbent
Assumed office 2015
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
President of Al-Mustafa International University
In office 2008–2018
Succeeded by	Ali Abbasi
Personal details
Born	1959 (age 66–67) Meybod, Iran
Personal
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Twelver Shi'a
Jurisprudence	Ja'fari
Creed	Usuli

Alireza Arafi^[a] (born 1959) is an Iranian cleric and politician who has been a member of the Guardian Council since 2019. He has also been a member of the Assembly of Experts since 2022. He sat on the Interim Leadership Council, alongside President Masoud Pezeshkian and Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, after the assassination of Ali Khamenei.

Arafi has been head of Iran's seminaries since 2016, and the Friday Prayer Imam of Qom since 2015. He was President of Al-Mustafa International University from 2008 to 2018.^[1][2]