Ali Ardalan

{{short description|Iranian politician}}

{{For|Iranian diplomat|Ali-Gholi Ardalan}}

{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Ali Ardalan

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{circa}} {{birth year|1914}}

| birth_place = Tuyserkan, Iran

| nationality = Iranian

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|1914|df=y}}

| death_place = Tehran, Iran

| office1 = Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance

| term_start1 = 15 February 1979

| term_end1 = 6 November 1979

| predecessor1 = Rostam Pirasteh

| successor1 = Abolhassan Banisadr

| primeminister1= Mehdi Bazargan

| office2 = Member-elect of the Iranian Parliament

| term2 = Credentials rejected in 1980

| constituency2 = Tuyserkan

| party = Iran Party

| otherparty = National Front
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}}

Ali Ardalan ({{langx|fa|علی اردلان}}) was an Iranian politician affiliated with the National Front.{{cite book|last1=Menashri|first1=David|title=Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136333644|date=2012|page=150}}

He served as the Minister of Finance under Cabinet of Bazargan in 1979{{cite book|first=John H.|last=Lorentz|title=The A to Z of Iran |volume=209|series=The A to Z Guide Series|publisher=Scarecrow Press|pages=251|date=2010|isbn=978-1461731917}} and then was elected to the Parliament in 1980 legislative election, despite getting barred to take his seat.{{cite book|last1=Baktiari|first1=Bahman|title=Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics|publisher=University Press of Florida|year=1996|page=69|isbn=978-0-8130-1461-6}}

He served as the chairman of Association for Defense of Freedom and the Sovereignty of the Iranian Nation.{{citation|title=Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism|last=Afshari|first=Reza|date=2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|page=358|isbn=9780812201055}}