Background
Mahdavi Kani was born on 25 August 1931 in the village of Kan, near Tehran. His father was an Ayatollah and taught in the Mofid School.
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Mahdavi Kani was born on 25 August 1931 in the village of Kan, near Tehran. His father was an Ayatollah and taught in the Mofid School.
After he finished basic education in Kan, he studied at Borhan High School in Tehran.
Before that, he was Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice in the cabinets of Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. On 4 June 2014, Mahdavi Kani was hospitalized in Bahman Hospital and went into a coma after suffering a heart attack. He died on 21 October 2014.
He left for Qom in 1947 to study at a religious seminary.
After the demise of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, Mahdavi Kani went back to Tehran and continued his struggle against the Pahlavi regime, something which he had started since he was 18, during the time of Ayatollah Boroujerdi. He was considerably active and effective in his participation in the Islamic movement of Iran led by Khomeini.
He is the leader of the Combatant Clergy Association, which he cofounded in 1977. He was appointed chief of the Central Provisional Komiteh for the Islamic Revolution that was a body in charge of trials and executions of the civil and military officials of the Pahlavi era.
He served as the minister of interior in the cabinet of Mohammad-Ali Rajai to succeeding Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
He was reappointed as minister of interior in the cabinet of Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. He became the interim prime minister on 2 September 1981 and was in office until 29 October 1981. He was also chairman of provisional presidential council, after the assassination of president Mohammad Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar.
He was elected as chairman of the Assembly of Experts on 8 March 2011 after Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani resigned from office.
In March 2013, he was reelected to the post for further two years. He was hospitalized for a stroke on Ruhollah Khomeini"s death anniversary, which brought him to coma on 4 June 2014.
He was in coma for more than five months and died on 21 October 2014 at the age of 83. Hours after Mahdavi Kani"s death, his office announced that his state funeral will be held on 23 October and his body will be buried at Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine.
Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani also announced two days of mourning in his memorial.
Before the Islamic Revolution, he was appointed by Khomeini to the Revolutionary Council and later took up various political and religious positions. He has also been a member of the Constitutional Amendment Council of Iran, appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, to review and amend the Constitution of Iran in 1989.
He was also elected as member of the assembly in 2008 in a by-election from Tehran.