Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

Iranian Ayatollah

محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 May 2024Supreme LeaderAli KhameneiPreceded byAhmad JannatiChairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
ActingIn office
29 December 2018 – 30 December 2018Preceded byMahmoud Hashemi ShahroudiSucceeded bySadeq LarijaniIn office
1 February 2017 – 14 August 2017Preceded byAkbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSucceeded byMahmoud Hashemi ShahroudiTehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 December 2012Appointed byAli KhameneiMember of Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2016ConstituencyTehran ProvinceMajority2,134,963In office
14 July 1983 – 24 May 2016ConstituencyKerman ProvinceMember of the ParliamentIn office
28 May 1984 – 28 May 2000ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and EslamshahrMajority1,025,629 (44.6%; 5th term)In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984ConstituencyKermanMember of Expediency Discernment CouncilIn office
4 October 1989 – 20 September 2022Appointed byAli KhameneiChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani Personal detailsBorn1932 (age 91–92)
Kerman, IranPolitical partyCombatant Clergy AssociationOther political
affiliationsIslamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1]

Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani (Persian: محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی; born 1932) is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the former secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts. He is a conservative and principlist politician.

He was formerly one of the deputy speakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly.[2]

Political career

Movahedi won 685,974 votes of the Kerman Province for his re-election to the 4th Assembly of Experts.[3] He was ranked 2nd after Ahmad Khatami in the constituency.[4]

Views

In 2019, Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani in Tehran Friday prayer declared that Telegram is haram and requested a National Information Network deployment like the great firewall of China.[5] Movahedi-Kermani asserts that one must adhere to the instruction of the Chief Islamic Jurisprudent, according to the doctrine of Velayat-e faqih.[6] He also believes that the United States is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."[7]

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani.
  1. ^ Ervand Abrahamian (1989). Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin. I.B.Tauris. p. 45. ISBN 9781850430773.
  2. ^ "Islamic Consultative Assembly -5th Majlis: (July 2000)". Archived from the original on 20 February 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.
  3. ^ Results of Assembly of Experts elections in some provinces – Irna Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Assembly of Experts members" (in Persian). Assembly of Experts. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  5. ^ "خطیب جمعه تهران: تلگرام حرام است؛ مانند چینی‌ها عمل کنیم". العربیه فارسی. 1 March 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  6. ^ "Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East". Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  7. ^ Iran Report 20 May 2002
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