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Morteza Moghtadai

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Morteza Moghtadai
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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]

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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]

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Biography

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]

Responsibilities

Some of his responsibilities after the revolution are as follows:[4]

  • Islamic Revolution Court judge
  • Member and spokesman of the Supreme Judicial Council
  • Chairman of the Supreme Court
  • Chairman of the Supreme Court and prosecutor general
  • Membership in the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom
  • Member of the Supreme Council of the Qom Seminary
  • Manage seminaries
  • Chairman of the Qom Seminary

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