Hassan Rouhani

Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian Islamist politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He served as a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2024. He was a member of the Expediency Council from 1991 to 2021, and also was a member of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2021. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity, he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three, UK, France, and Germany, on nuclear technology in Iran, and has also served as a Shia mujtahid, and economic trade negotiator.

12 November 1948

Born on the same birth day (12 November): Alexandra Charles • Ashley Williams (actress) • Buck Dharma • Conrad Rautenbach • David Ellefson • Disco Inferno (wrestler) • France Štiglic • Gijs Van Hoecke • Günter Dyhrenfurth • Ian Graham • Jason Cundy • Kengo Kora • Lucas Glover • Mark Hunter (ice hockey) • Paul McNamee • Ron Lapointe • Trey Burke

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