Saeed Jalili was born in the northeastern city of Mashhad in 1965 to Mohammad Hassan Jalili, a French language teacher and principal. His mother was from Ardabil, a city in northwest Iran.
Jalili completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown Mashhad.
During the West-backed Iraqi war against Iran in the 1980s, he served on the battlefields, where he was severely wounded in 1986, resulting in the loss of part of his right leg.
He is a former lead nuclear negotiator and head of the Supreme National Security Council, the top security body of the country.
He served as Iran's lead nuclear negotiator and previously held the post of Deputy Foreign Minister for European and American Affairs.
He was one of the seven candidates for the 13th presidential election in Iran. In debates and press conferences of the previous Presidential election, he announced many plans in various fields, including economics.
Iran will hold presidential elections on June 28, following the martyrdom of President Ebrahim Raeisi and his entourage in a helicopter crash in May.
The election’s winner will replace Ebrahim Raisi, who embraced martyrdom during a helicopter crash in Iran’s northwestern mountainous region on May 19.
MNA