Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

Iranian Ayatollah

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

• List of ayatollahs
• List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts

References

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