Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani (Persian: محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی; born 1931) 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.

Mohammad-Ali
Movahedi Kermani
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
Assumed office
2 December 2012
Appointed byAli Khamenei
Member of Assembly of Experts
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
Born
Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

1931 (age 91–92)
Kerman, Iran
Political partyCombatant Clergy Association
Other political
affiliations		Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1]

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 National Information Network deployment like 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
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  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


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