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Reza Mohammadi Langroudi
Iranian cleric (1928–2020)
Reza Mohammadi Langroudi (Persian: رضا محمدی لنگرودی; 3 August 1928 – 5 March 2020)[1] was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Ayatollah. He served as representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the town of Langroud.[2][better source needed]
Reza Mohammadi Langroudi was a student of Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani.[3][4]
During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he played an influential role in the marches. For a time, he was the temporary Friday imam of Langroud and Amlash.
Langroudi died at the age of 91 as a result of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 5 March 2020.[1][5]