Saeed Jalili

Saeed Jalili
Saeed Jalili in 2021
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 September 2013
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council
In office 20 October 2007 – 10 September 2013
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Ali Larijani
Succeeded by	Ali Shamkhani
Chief Nuclear Negotiator of Iran
In office 21 October 2007 – 5 September 2013
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Deputy	Ali Bagheri
Preceded by	Ali Larijani
Succeeded by	Mohammad Javad Zarif
Personal details
Born	1965 (age 58–59) Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Front of Islamic Revolution Stability
Spouse	Fatemeh Sajjadi ​ (m. 1993)​ [1]
Children	1
Residence(s)	Lavizan, Tehran[1]
Alma mater	Imam Sadegh University
Signature
Website	drjalily.com
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Basij
Unit	5th Nasr Division
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War  • Operation Karbala-5  (WIA)

Saeed Jalili (Persian: سعید جلیلی; born 1965) ^[2]is an Iranian conservative politician and diplomat who was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 2007 to 2013. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

He was also Iran's nuclear negotiator. He was previously deputy foreign minister for European and American Affairs. Jalili was an unsuccessful candidate in the June 2013 presidential election, placing third.

He also ran in the 2021 presidential election but withdrew in favour of Ebrahim Raisi before the election.