Ebrahim Haj Amini Najafabadi ( Persian : ابراهیم حاج امینی نجف‌آبادی ; June 30, 1925 – April 24, 2020) was an Iranian principlist politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts . He was also a member of the Expediency Discernment Council , and was previously identified as a possible candidate to become the next Iranian Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Amini was a jurist and a moderate supporter of jurisprudential Islam. He was a member of the Council for the Revision of the Second Constitution in 1989 and was a supporter of the maximum ruling term of a Supreme Leader being ten years.