Mahmoud Salavati ( Persian : محمود صلواتی ; born 21 March 1953 in Khomeini Shahr , Isfahan Province) is a jurist, author, commentator and translator of the Quran and Nahj , religious scholar and member of the Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers . He is a co-founder of the Islamic Revolution and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards . He is also the founder and the first president of the Center for Research and ideological – political Iranian Revolutionary Guards and outstanding student of Ayatollah Montazeri and Ayatollah Yousef Sanei and close associate of the late Ayatollah Taheri Esfahani is. ِِDr fazlollah Salavati is his cousin.