Hadi Tahan Nazif

Hadi Tahan Nazif (Persian: هادی طحان نظیف, born 1983) was born in Dezful during the war between Iran and Iraq and is the youngest member

Academic background Nazif holds an undergraduate degree specializing in law from Imam Sadiq University In 2013, he completed a PhD from the University of Tehran.

Career In 2008, while working on his PhD, Nazif became a member of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government as deputy for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.

Nazif also worked as a secretary for the Guardian Council. For about ten years he was working alongside both Ahmad Jannati and Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaie, the Secretary and Spokesperson of the Council, recording the minutes of sessions and arranging the agenda for Guardian Council meetings.

In 2019 Nazif was nominated by the Head of the Judiciary, Ebrahim Raisi, for a position as a legal scholar on the Guardian Council. In June 2019, when Nazif was just 36 years old, he was voted into the Guardian Council by members of Iran's Parliament (Majles) as its youngest member.