[3][4] He is the son of Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of Iranian Guardian Council and Tehran's interim prayer leader.

He began his career in the Revolutionary Guards as being commander-in-chief of Armed Forces in Khorasan province.

[7] He was Iran's ambassador to Kuwait from 1998 to 2005 and deputy interior minister for political affairs from 2005 to 2006.

[9] In February 2015, he was harshly criticized by conservatives after the music album To Ra Ey Kohan Boomo Bar Doost Daram was published.

He resigned on 19 October 2016 as part of a cabinet reshuffle, after days of speculations about his dismissal by President Hassan Rouhani.