| Religion: | Islam | ||||||||||
| Morteza Moghtadaei | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | مرتضی مقتدایی | ||||||||||
| Maddhab: | Twelver Shia Islam | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 12 October 1935 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Isfahan | ||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Qom Hawza
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Ayatollah Morteza Moghtadai (Persian: مرتضی مقتدایی; born 12 October 1935 in Isfahan) is an Iranian Twelver shia scholar, and deputy chairman of Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom. He was elected to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Assembly of Experts. He currently resides in Isfahan and teaches in the city's seminary.[1]
He was quoted as saying of the 2009 Iranian election protests that the "demonstrators were treading the path of the world's arrogance" and that "The regime must confront them".[2]
Moghtadaei was born in 1935 in Isfahan Hakim Mosque District. His father, Mirza Mahmoud Moghtadaei of Clergymen of that time was a disciple of Abdul-Karim Ha'eri Yazdi and Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohaghegh Damad, Syed Ahmad Zanjani."[3]
Some of his responsibilities after the revolution are as follows:[4]