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 is. ِِDr is his cousin.