Ali Movahedi-Kermani

Mohammad-Ali
Movahedi-Kermani
Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam
Assumed office
2 December 2012
Appointed by Ali Khamenei
Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
Acting
In office
1 February 2017  14 August 2017
Preceded by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
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 Mohammad-Ali Movahedi-Kermani
1931 (age 8687)
Kerman, Iran
Political party Combatant Clergy Association
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1]

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Persian: محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی) 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, according to the doctrine of Velayat-e faqih.[5] He also believes that the United States is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."[6]

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 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2007-01-30.
  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. Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East
  6. Iran Report 20 May 2002
Assembly seats
Preceded by
Ali Akbar Parvaresh
2nd Vice Speaker of Parliament of Iran
1993–1994
1995–2000
Succeeded by
Hossein Hashemian
Preceded by
Hossein Hashemian
Succeeded by
Mohammad Reza Khatami
Party political offices
Preceded by
Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani
Secretary-General of the Combatant Clergy Association
2014–2018
Succeeded by
Mostafa Pourmohammadi
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