Seyed Ali Marandi

Dr. Seyed Ali Marandi is a prominent Iranian physician who has served as the personal doctor of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. A specialist in pediatrics and nutrition, he served as Minister of Health of Iran from 1989 to 1993 under President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and has remained a trusted figure within the conservative establishment. His long-standing personal access to Khamenei as his physician has given the Marandi family exceptional proximity to the regime's inner circle. He is the father of Mohammad Marandi, the University of Tehran professor, literary critic, and prominent English-language defender of the Islamic Republic, whose regime access is substantially explained by this family connection.