Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ( Persian : محمود هاشمی شاهرودی , 15 August 1948 – 24 December 2018) was an Iranian-Iraqi Twelver Shia cleric and principlist politician who was the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council from 14 August 2017 until his death on 24 December 2018. He was previously the Chief Justice of Iran from 1999 to 2009.