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Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani | |
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محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی | |
![]() Movahedi in 2019 | |
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts | |
Assumed office 21 May 2024 | |
Supreme Leader | Ali Khamenei |
Preceded by | Ahmad Jannati |
Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council Acting | |
In office 29 December 2018 –30 December 2018 | |
Preceded by | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
Succeeded by | Sadeq Larijani |
In office 1 February 2017 –14 August 2017 | |
Preceded by | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
Succeeded by | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam | |
Assumed office 2 December 2012 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
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 |
Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
In office 4 October 1989 –20 September 2022 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Chairman | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
Personal details | |
Born | 1932 (age 91–92) Kerman,Iran |
Political party | Combatant Clergy Association |
Other political affiliations | Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987) [1] |
Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani (Persian :محمدعلیموحدیکرمانی;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]
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]
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]
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