Ebrahim Amini

{{short description|Iranian Ayatollah (1925-2020)}}

{{distinguish|Seyyed Ebrahim Amini}}

{{expand Persian|topic=bio|otherarticle=ابراهیم امینی|date=February 2017}}

{{Infobox politician

| name = Ebrahim Amini

| image = Ebrahim Amini ابراهیم امینی 11.jpg

| caption = Amini in 2016

| office= Member of the Assembly of Experts

| term_start= 24 May 2016

| term_end = 24 April 2020

| majority = 1,904,524

| constituency = Tehran Province

| term_start1= 15 August 1983

| term_end1 = 19 February 2007

| constituency1 = Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province

| successor1 =

| office2= Second Deputy Chairman of the Assembly of Experts

| term_start2= 1985

| term_end2 = 2006

| predecessor2 = Mohammad Mehdi Rabbani Amlishi

| successor2 = Mohammad Yazdi

| office3= Member of the Expediency Discernment Council

| term_start3= 17 March 1997

| term_end3 = 24 April 2020

| predecessor3 =

| successor3 =

| birth_name = Ebrahim Amini Najafabadi

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|6|30}}

| birth_place = Najaf Abad, Isfahan Province, Sublime State of Persia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|4|24|1925|6|30}}

| death_place = Qom, Qom Province, Iran

| nationality = Iranian

| party = Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom

| alma_mater = Isfahan Hawza
Qom Seminary

| other_names =

| known_for =

| occupation = Cleric
Politician

| signature = Ebrahim Amini signature.svg

| website = [http://www.ibrahimamini.com www.ibrahimamini.com]

}}

Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini ({{langx|fa|ابراهیم امینی}}; June 30, 1925 – April 24, 2020) was an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts. He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader.{{citation|author=Saeed Kamali Dehghan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/31/iran-ayatollah-ali-khamenei-succession-supreme-leader|title= When the time comes, who will succeed Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? |work=The Guardian|date=31 October 2014 |access-date=24 February 2017}} Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jqypyAEACAAJ |title=Diverging Approaches of Political Islamic Thought in Iran since the 1960s |author=Seyed Mohammad Lolaki |publisher=Springer Nature |year=2019 |isbn=978-981-15-0477-8 |page=157}}