Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi (Persian: محمود علوی; born 4 May 1954) is an Iranian conservative politician who currently serves as the Special Aide to the President of Iran since 2024.

[10] He is the former head of the political and ideological body of the Iranian Army to which he was appointed by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

[13][14] He ran for office in the list of Resistance Front of the Islamic Revolution led by Mohsen Rezaee in the 2012 election.

[15] However, Alavi's nomination was rejected by the Guardian Council on the grounds that he did not have "practical commitment to Islam and the regime.

[20] Ali Reza Eshraghi of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argues that Alavi is a principalist politician in the Iranian political arena.