Hojatoleslam

Hojatoleslam

Hujjat al-Islam is an honorific title meaning "authority on Islam" or "proof of Islam", given to Twelver Shī‘ah clerics...

/Ayatollah

Ayatollah

Ayatollah is a high ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah clerics. Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, and philosophy and usually teach in Islamic seminaries. The next lower clerical rank is Hojatoleslam wal-muslemin...

 Ali Movahedi-Kermani is representative of Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei

Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i is the Supreme Leader of Iran and the figurative head of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran and Twelver Shi'a marja...

 in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts

Assembly of Experts

The Assembly of Experts of Iran , also translated as Council of Experts, is a deliberative body of 86 Mujtahids that is charged with electing and removing the Supreme Leader of Iran and supervising his activities.Members of the assembly are elected from a government-screened list of candidates by...

.

He was formerly one of the deputy speakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Views

Movahedi-Kermani asserts that one must adhere to the instruction of the Chief Islamic Jurisprudent

Supreme leader

A supreme leader typically refers to a figure in the highest leadership position of an entity, group, organization, or state, who exercises strong or all-powerful authority over it. In religion, the supreme leader or supreme leaders is God or Gods...

. He also believes that the United States

United States

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 is trying to "portray the clergy and religion as failures."

4th Assembly of Experts

Movahedi reportedly won 685,974 votes of the Kerman Province for his re-election to the 4th Assembly of Experts.