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|caption = Kashani in 1983

|spouse = Anousheh Sepehri {{small|(1969–2012, her death)}}

|children = 4

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|6|6|df=y}}{{fact|date=September 2024}}

|party = [[IndependentIslamic (politician)|IndependentRepublican Party]] {{small|(since 19871979–1987)}}

'''[[Sayyid]] Mahmoud Kashani''' (Persian: سید محمود کاشانی) (born 6 June 1942{{fact|date=September in [[Tehran]]2024}}) is an Iranian politician, academic, writer and lawyer. He is also a professor in [[Shahid Beheshti University]].<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://law.sbu.ac.ir/Desktopmodules/Sbu_ProfessorsPage/SP_Fa.aspx?userid=726&lng=Fa |title=Shahid Beheshti University, Books written by Mahmoud Kashani] |access-date=2013-05-14 |archive-date=2014-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606121107/http://law.sbu.ac.ir/Desktopmodules/Sbu_ProfessorsPage/SP_Fa.aspx?userid=726&lng=Fa |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was head of the Iranian delegation to the [[International Court of Justice]] in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]] from 1981 to 1985. He was also a presidential candidate in the [[1985 Iranian presidential election, 1985|1985]] and [[2001 Iranian presidential election, 2001|2001]] elections.

==Early life and Familyfamily==

He was born on 6 June 1942 in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]].{{fact|date=September 2024}} His father, [[Abol-Ghasem Kashani]] was a prominent Twelver Shia Muslim cleric and former chairman of the [[Parliament of Iran|parliament]]. He is also older brother of [[Ahmad Kashani]], a former member of the parliament.

Kashani founded [[Islamic Republican Party]] with [[Mohammad Beheshti]] and [[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]] and was secretary-general of the party from 1979 to 1981. He was appointed as head of the Iranian delegation to the International Court of Justice in Iran's case with the [[United States]] in December 1981 by then-[[Prime Minister of Iran|Prime Minister]] [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]] but was removed from his position by [[Mir-Hossein Mousavi]]. He was independent candidate in [[1985 Iranian presidential election, 1985|1985 presidential election]] which receives 1,402,416 (10.1%) of the votes behind winner [[Ali Khamenei]]. He was also nominated in [[2001 Iranian presidential election, 2001|2001 presidential election]]<ref name=jim1jun>{{cite news|last=Muir|first=Jim|title=Iran election: People and policies|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1364676.stm|accessdate=28 June 2013|newspaper=BBC|date=1 June 2001|location=Tehran}}</ref> which he lost to [[Mohammad Khatami]] and was ranked as the 5th out of 10 candidates.

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