Ali Esbati (Persian: علی اثباتی; born 12 September 1976) is an Iranian-Swedish politician of the Left Party who was a member of the Riksdag from 2014 to 2024.

After resigning from his position as the debate and opinion editor of the newspaper Klassekampen,[5] he worked as managing director at the think tank Manifest.

[6] Esbati was born in Teheran, Iran, and came to Sweden in 1985 with his mother and a younger brother; his father arrived six months later.

[7] Esbati was invited to host a lecture at the summer camp of the Norwegian Workers' Youth League on Utøya outside Oslo on 22 July 2011.

There he became a witness of the shooting of 69 people by the lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik, most of them young members of the League.