Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani

Iranian mullah

Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Movahedi Kermani (Persian: محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی; born 1932) is an Iranian politician and cleirc. He is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam. He is also the former 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] In May 2024, he became the Chairman of the Assembly of Experts.


Mohammad-Ali
Movahedi Kermani
محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی
Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
Assumed office
21 May 2024
Supreme LeaderAli Khamenei
Preceded byAhmad Jannati
Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
Acting
In office
29 December 2018 – 30 December 2018
Preceded byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Succeeded bySadeq Larijani
In office
1 February 2017 – 14 August 2017
Preceded byAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam
Assumed office
2 December 2012
Appointed byAli Khamenei
Member of Assembly of Experts
Assumed office
24 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran Province
Majority2,134,963
In office
14 July 1983 – 24 May 2016
ConstituencyKerman Province
Member of the Parliament
In office
28 May 1984 – 28 May 2000
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority1,025,629 (44.6%; 5th term)
In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
ConstituencyKerman
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
In office
4 October 1989 – 20 September 2022
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Personal details
Born1932 (age 91–92)
Kerman, Iran
Political partyCombatant Clergy Association
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[1]

References

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  1. Ervand Abrahamian (1989). Radical Islam: the Iranian Mojahedin. I.B.Tauris. pp. 45. ISBN 9781850430773.
  2. "Islamic Consultative Assembly -5th Majlis: (July 2000)". Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2007-01-30.