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AyatollahMohammad-Ali
Movahedi Kermani
محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی
Movahedi in 2019
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 May 2024
Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei
Preceded byAhmad Jannati
Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
Acting
In office
29 December 2018 – 30 December 2018
Preceded byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Succeeded bySadeq Larijani
In office
1 February 2017 – 14 August 2017
Preceded byAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 December 2012
Appointed byAli Khamenei
Member of Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran province
Majority2,134,963
In office
14 July 1983 – 24 May 2016
ConstituencyKerman province
Member of the Parliament
In office
28 May 1984 – 28 May 2000
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority1,025,629 (44.6%; 5th term)
In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
ConstituencyKerman
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
In office
4 October 1989 – 20 September 2022
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Personal details
Born1932 (age 91–92)
Kerman, Iran
Political partyCombatant Clergy Association
Other political
affiliations		Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)

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.

Political career

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

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. Movahedi-Kermani asserts that one must adhere to the instruction of the Chief Islamic Jurisprudent, according to the doctrine of Velayat-e faqih. He also believes that the United States is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."

See also

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
Political offices
Preceded byAhmad Jannati Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
2024– 		Succeeded byIncumbent
Assembly seats
Preceded byAli Akbar Parvaresh 2nd Vice Speaker of Parliament of Iran
1993–1994
1995–2000 		Succeeded byHossein Hashemian
Preceded byHossein Hashemian Succeeded byMohammad Reza Khatami
Party political offices
Preceded byMohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani Secretary-General of the Combatant Clergy Association
2014–2018 		Succeeded byMostafa Pourmohammadi


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