Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

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.

Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani
محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی
Movahedi in 2019
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 December 2012
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Member of Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
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 92–93) Kerman, Iran
Political party	Combatant 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 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

• List of ayatollahs
• List of members in the First Term of the Council of Experts

References

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

Political offices
Preceded by Ahmad Jannati	Chairman of the Assembly of Experts 2024–	Succeeded by Incumbent
Assembly seats
Preceded by Ali Akbar Parvaresh	2nd Vice Speaker of Parliament of Iran 1993–1994 1995–2000	Succeeded by Hossein Hashemian
Preceded by Hossein Hashemian		Succeeded by Mohammad Reza Khatami
Party political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani	Secretary-General of the Combatant Clergy Association 2014–2018	Succeeded by Mostafa Pourmohammadi