Mohammad Javad Pishvai

Seyyed Mohammad Javad Pishvai (Persian:سید_محمد_جواد_پیشوایی; Bandar-e Anzali, b. 1944) is the religious leader of Bandar-e Anzali, appointed by a handwritten verdict of Ayatollah Khomeini 5 days after the establishment of the Islamic Republic.

Seyyed Mohammad Javad Pishvai with his father Ayatollah Seyyed Aboutaleb Pishvai in 1961. This picture was taken just after he had been dressed in clerical garbs by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Seyyed Mohammad Javad Pishvai

He was born a son of Ayatollah Seyyed Aboutaleb Pishvai, religious leader of Bandar-e Anzali from 1951 to 1978. In 1961 he was dressed in clerical garbs by Ayatollah Khomeini, who had come to pay a visit to his father Ayatollah Pishvai. From 1965 to 1975 he attended Hakim Religious School in Qom in order to receive a certificate granting him the right to represent religious institutions.

In 1981, Ayatollah Khomeini sent him, as the supreme's leader official representative, across the country on a religious mission to Sistan and Baluchestan Province, a place very unlike the Caspian harbor city Pishvai represented before.^[1]

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  Pishvai on the battleground during the Iran-Iraq War
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  Pishvai in 1964, giving his first lecture in the Grand Mosque of Bandar-e Anzali
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  Pishvai giving a speech in his hometown of Bandar-e Anzali