Seyyed Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem (Persian: سید محمدعلی آل‌هاشم), also known as "Ayatollah Ale-Hashem" (28 October 1962 – 19 May 2024) was an Iranian jurist and Twelver Shia cleric who was the representative of Vali-e-Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) in the province of East Azerbaijan,[2][3][4] and Imam of Friday Prayer in Tabriz.

[5][6] Ale-Hashem was killed in the 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash alongside then President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi and six others on board.

Likewise, he passed his Kharij-Feqh lessons (of Hawzah) in the classes of Iran's current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

He was also the head of the "Political Ideological Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army" before being appointed the position of Vali-e-Faqih representative in East-Azerbaijan Province and Tabriz Imam-Jom'ah.

[14] He answered two phone calls after the crash, according to Gholamhossein Esmaili, who was aboard one of the helicopters in Raisi’s entourage.