Although some believe that he is too old to be running one of the most influential institutions in the country, the trust that Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, has in Jannati has kept him in power despite all the criticism.

"God ordered the prophet Muhammad to brutally slay hypocrites and ill-intentioned people who stuck to their convictions.

"[21] Responding to clerics such as Jannati wanting to speed up executions, Iran's judiciary chief firmly stated his opposition, commenting that it was against the Sharia and Iranian law:[22] "Political assumptions should not influence judicial investigations because we won't have a response before God should an innocent person be punished due to hasty action.

"In a 1 June 2007 speech aired on Iranian TV Channel 1 (as translated by MEMRI), Jannati stated: Today, we can see that even in America, people are increasingly inclined towards Islam.

On 17 September 2010, Jannati "described the recent desecration of the holy Quran in the United States [as] an insane behavior," apparently referring to the 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy.

In the same Friday Prayer, he reportedly claimed that "opinion polls reveal[ed] that 84 percent of the Americans consider the US administration responsible for 9/11 attacks.

After Ahmadinejad proposed a "cultural campaign" to combat loose hijab rather than a police crackdown, Jannati responded, "Drug traffickers are hanged, terrorists are executed and robbers are punished for their crimes, but when it comes to the law of God, which is above human rights," some individuals "stay put and speak about cultural programs.

Janati said in 2012 that "young revolutionaries" should occupy key posts in the country - quote that brought him criticism and mockery given his own age.

[34] His son Hossein Jannati was a member of People's Mujahedin of Iran and was killed in a street battle by the Islamic Republic security forces in 1981.