{{Short description|Iranian cleric and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ali Younesi | native_name = {{No bold|علی یونسی}} | native_name_lang = fa | image= Ali Younesi (cropped).jpg | caption = Ali Younesi in September 2016 | birth_name = Mehr-Ali Younesi | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|8|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Nahavand, Iran | order1 = Special Aide to the president of Iran for Ethnic and Religious Minorities Affairs | term_start1 = 22 August 2013 | term_end1 = 24 November 2018<ref>{{cite news |title=10 officials left the Presidential Administration |url=https://www.isna.ir/news/97090401087/۱۰-مقام-از-نهاد-ریاست-جمهوری-خداحافظی-کردند |agency=Iranian Students News Agency |date=24 November 2018 |language=Persian}}</ref> | president1 = Hassan Rouhani | predecessor1 = ''Position established'' | successor1 = ''Position abolished'' | order2 = Minister of Intelligence | term_start2 = 24 February 1999 | term_end2 = 24 August 2005 | president2 = Mohammad Khatami | predecessor2 = Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi | successor2 = Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei | alma_mater = | spouse = Sediqeh Jalalvand | children = 5 }} '''Ali Younesi''' (born 26 August 1955) is an Iranian politician, who served in different positions.
==Education== Younesi is a graduate of the Haqqani school in Qom.<ref>{{cite web|title=Iranian nuclear decision making under Ahmedinejad |url=http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_uploads/2814shmuelbariranianahmadinejad.pdf |work=Lauder School of Government |accessdate=29 August 2013 |author=Shmuel Bar |author2=Shmuel Bacher |author3=Rachel Machtiger |date=January 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402163527/http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2814ShmuelBarIranianAhmadinejad.pdf |archivedate=2 April 2012 }}</ref>
==Career== [[File:48th Armenian olympic opening ceremony 139506232302165498652964.jpg|thumb|Opening ceremony of Pan-Armenian Games at the Ararat Stadium on 13 September 2016: Sepuh Sargsyan (left) and Ali Younesi (right)]] Following the Islamic Revolution, Younesi became the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran and later head of the politico-ideological bureau of Islamic Revolutionary Guards.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://iranfocus.com/news/other/2020-irans-ministry-of-intelligence-and-security/|title=Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security|date=6 May 2005|work=Iran Focus}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=NCRI-affiliated source|date=July 2023}} He was minister of intelligence<ref>{{cite book|last=Buchta|first=Wilfried|title=Who rules Iran?: The structure of power in the Islamic Republic|year=2000|publisher=The Washington Inst. for Near East Policy [u.a.]|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-944029-39-6|url=http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/WhoRulesIran.pdf|access-date=14 August 2013|archive-date=24 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190324173725/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/WhoRulesIran.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a member of the Supreme National Security Council during the presidency Mohammad Khatami. He was Hassan Rouhani's adviser on political and security affairs.
== Personal life == On 24 January 2026, Younesi's son Hassan, in response to the high casualty rate of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, wrote on X: "I am disgusted by the government and the leadership that ordered this crime and massacre. I am disgusted by the government that became complicit in this crime, disgusted by the reformists that justified this massacre, and I am with the sons and daughters of Iran in their grief and mourning."<ref>https://x.com/IranIntl/status/2015116629126885753</ref>
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