Alireza Avayi
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Seyyed Alireza Avayi (Persian: سید علیرضا آوایی; born 20 May 1956 in Dezful, Iran) is an Iranian prosecutor and conservative politician, who has been justice minister since 20 August 2017. He gained vote of confidence from the parliament with 244 yeas, 18 nays, 23 abstentions and 3 invalid votes.
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Avayi served most of his career in the judiciary, being appointed as the prosecutor general of his native Dezful in the eve of Iranian Revolution in 1979 and holding the same office in Ahvaz in 1988. Between 1994 and 2002, he was the most senior judiciary official in the provinces of Lorestan, Markazi and Isfahan, before assuming the position in Tehran Province from 2005 to 2014.