Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi (Persian: محمدجواد آذری جهرمی; born 16 September 1982) is an Iranian politician and former intelligence officer[3] who served as the Minister of Information and Communications Technology in the administration of President Hassan Rouhani from 2017 to 2021.

[6] He studied electrical engineering at the Power and Water University of Technology, where he met his future wife.

[6] Azari Jahromi worked at the Ministry of Intelligence from 2002 to 2009,[2] where he for some time held managerial positions and was involved in crackdown of 2009 election protests.

[5] He then became ex-officio vice minister of information and communications technology, in his capacity as the chairman of Telecommunications Infrastructure Company.

[5] In November 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Azari "for his role in the Iranian regime’s widescale internet censorship," freezing any of his U.S. assets and banning U.S. persons from doing business with him.