Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Ayatollah
Mohammad-Ali
Movahedi Kermani
Native Name Lang:fa
Office:Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
Term Start:21 May 2024
1Blankname:Supreme Leader
1Namedata:Ali Khamenei
Predecessor:Ahmad Jannati
Office1:Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
Term Start1:29 December 2018
Term End1:30 December 2018
Predecessor1:Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Term Start2:1 February 2017
Term End2:14 August 2017
Successor2:Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Term Start3:2 December 2012
Appointer3:Ali Khamenei
Term Start4:24 May 2016
Majority4:2,134,963
Constituency4:Tehran Province
Term Start5:14 July 1983
Term End5:24 May 2016
Constituency5:Kerman Province
Office6:Member of the Parliament
Term Start6:28 May 1984
Term End6:28 May 2000
Majority6:1,025,629 (44.6%; 5th term)
Constituency6:Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Term Start7:28 May 1980
Term End7:28 May 1984
Constituency7:Kerman
Office8:Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Term Start8:4 October 1989
Term End8:20 September 2022
Appointer8:Ali Khamenei
1Blankname8:Chairman
1Namedata8:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Birth Place:Kerman, Iran
Party:Combatant Clergy Association
Otherparty:Islamic Republican Party [1]

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.[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 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]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ervand Abrahamian. Ervand Abrahamian. Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin. I.B.Tauris. 45. 1989. 9781850430773.
  2. Web site: Islamic Consultative Assembly -5th Majlis: (July 2000) . 2007-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070220145647/http://www.irvl.net/5majlis.htm . 2007-02-20 . dead .
  3. http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0612171170100918.htm Results of Assembly of Experts elections in some provinces – Irna
  4. Web site: Assembly of Experts members . Assembly of Experts . 28 October 2014 . Persian . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141020015413/http://www.khobreganrahbari.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=250 . 20 October 2014 .
  5. Web site: خطیب جمعه تهران: تلگرام حرام است؛ مانند چینی‌ها عمل کنیم. 1 March 2019. العربیه فارسی. 19 April 2023.
  6. Web site: Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East. 19 April 2023.
  7. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2002/18-200502.html Iran Report