Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi (In Persian: محمد یزدی) is a hard-line Iranian cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999, following Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardebili and succeeded by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Yazdi is now a member of Guardian Council. He has served as the interim Friday prayer leader of Tehran. During Iranian elections December 15, 2006 Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi was a candidate from Jame Modarresin and Jame Rohaniyat (the conservative list, rival to Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi) [1]

In 2009, Abbas Palizdar, a member of the Iranian Parliament's Judicial Inquiry and Review Committee, accused Mohammad Yazdi of corruption and money laundering.

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• Yazdi's opinion on the position of faqih in Islamic state (in Persian)

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