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Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

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.

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