Ali Movahedi-Kermani
Ali Movahedi-Kermani | |
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Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam | |
Assumed office 2 December 2012 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Member of Assembly of Experts | |
Assumed office 24 May 2016 | |
Constituency | Tehran Province |
Majority | 2,134,963 |
In office 14 July 1983 – 24 May 2016 | |
Constituency | Kerman Province |
Member of the Parliament | |
In office 28 May 1984 – 28 May 2000 | |
Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Majority | 1,025,629 (44.6%; 5th term) |
In office 28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984 | |
Constituency | Kerman |
Personal details | |
Born |
1931 (age 84–85) Kerman, Iran |
Political party | Combatant Clergy Association |
Other political affiliations | Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1] |
Religion | Islam |
Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the current secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts.
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
Movahedi-Kermani asserts that one must adhere to the instruction of the Chief Islamic Jurisprudent.[5] He also believes that the United States is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."[6]
References & notes
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- ↑ Ervand Abrahamian (1989). Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin. I.B.Tauris. p. 45. ISBN 9781850430773.
- ↑ Islamic Consultative Assembly -5th Majlis: (July 2000)
- ↑ Results of Assembly of Experts elections in some provinces - Irna
- ↑ "Assembly of Experts members" (in Persian). Assembly of Experts. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
- ↑ Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East
- ↑ Iran Report 20 May 2002
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