Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi

Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi

Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi (born 1943 in Gorgan) is an Iranian cleric.

Education

He started his theological studies at a very young age in Gorgan and later joined the Qom Islamic Seminary. He was studying in Qom around the time when Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran's current Supreme Leader, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani were also students.

Career

He was appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini as Friday Prayer Imam of Gorgan, Iran in summer 1979, only six months after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in February 1979. He was also appointed as special representative of Ayatollah Khomeini, in Gorgan in fall 1982. His position was reaffirmed by Khomeini's successor Ali Khamenei in 1989. He is considered to be a traditionally conservative clergyman with some reformist tendencies in modern politics of Iran.

He is married with four children, three sons and one daughter.

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