Veteran Iranian judge Hossein-Ali Nayyeri laid to rest in Tehran

A funeral ceremony was held on Saturday morning at Tehran’s historic Ark Mosque for Hojjatoleslam Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, a long-serving and senior figure in Iran’s judiciary, who passed away on April 3 following a lengthy illness.

The ceremony drew the presence of top-ranking officials, including Judiciary Chief Hojjatoleslam Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, along with a number of other senior judicial and government figures, and members of Nayyeri’s family.

Nayyeri held numerous high-profile judicial posts over the course of his career, including serving as the head of the Special Courts responsible for implementing Article 49 of the Constitution, president of the Supreme Disciplinary Court for Judges, and most recently, as a senior advisor to the head of the Judiciary.

In recent days, his passing was marred by the circulation of unfounded claims on social media alleging that Nayyeri had succumbed to injuries sustained during the January 18 terrorist attack at the Supreme Court, an incident that resulted in the martyrdom of Hojjatoleslams Mohammad-Reza Raazini and Mohammad Moqiseh.