Ali Movahedi-Kermani

Ali Movahedi-Kermani
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
Personal details
Born	1931 (age 84–85) Kerman, Iran
Political party	Combatant Clergy Association
Other political affiliations	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1]
Religion	Islam

Ayatollah Muhammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the current secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts.

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

Movahedi-Kermani asserts that one must adhere to the instruction of the Chief Islamic Jurisprudent.^[5] He also believes that the United States is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."^[6]

References & notes

1. Ervand Abrahamian (1989). Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin. I.B.Tauris. p. 45. ISBN 9781850430773.
2. Islamic Consultative Assembly -5th Majlis: (July 2000)
3. Results of Assembly of Experts elections in some provinces - Irna
4. "Assembly of Experts members" (in Persian). Assembly of Experts. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
5. Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: U.S. losing in Iraq, Middle East
6. Iran Report 20 May 2002