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]
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]