Ahmad Sayyed Javadi

Ahmad Sayyed Javadi (; 24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013) was an Iranian lawyer, political activist and politician, who served as interior minister and justice minister. He was the first interior minister after the 1979 revolution in Iran.

Early life and education Javadi was born into a devoutly religious family in Qazvin on 24 June 1917. The members of his family were Shiite clergy and merchants.

Javadi was the eldest of three brothers. Another, Hassan, was also a journalist who served as the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Ettelaat.

When the LMI was banned, Javadi became a member of the opposition group against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In 1968, he stated "piety and spirituality have left our society. Instead our hearts have been filled with fear and darkness. We must struggle for justice and attempt to build a society that is modelled after madinah-ye fazeleh [the prelude to the ideal unitarian classless Islamic society]." This view was the common sentiment among Muslim intellectuals of the period in Iran. He was also one of the lawyers of Mahmoud Taleghani together with Hasan Nazih in 1977. He also defended Ali Khamenei, Ali Shariati, and Hossein Ali Montazeri during the Pahlavi era.

Following the 1979 revolution, Javadi contributed to the draft of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic. He was a member of the revolutionary council and of the Islamic legislative assembly. He was succeeded by Hashem Sabbaghian in the post. Javadi's tenure lasted until November 1979 when the interim government resigned.

Javadi was cofounder of the Freedom Movement, an opposition group. He was a member of the central council of the movement.

Later years In 1985, Javadi was detained and tortured by Iranian security forces due to his criticisms about the arrest of the opposition figures. Javadi wrote a letter to Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, on 18 May 2011, and stated that Khamenei was "religiously and legally" responsible for the events in Iran, criticising Khamenei's support for Ahmadinejad.

In July 2012, Javadi was banned from traveling abroad by the government of Iran.

Death Javadi died aged 95 in Tehran on 31 March 2013.