Hossein Rasti Kashani

Ayatollah Hossein Rasti Kashani
حسین راستی کاشانی
Ayatollah Rasti Kashani
In office
14 July 1983 – 22 February 1999
ConstituencyTehran Province
Personal details
Born1927 (1927)
Kashan, Iran
Died20 September 2017
Tehran

Hossein Rasti Kashani (Persian: حسین راستی کاشانی; born in 1927 in Kashan - died on 29 September 2017 in Tehran) was a member of the community of teachers of Qom seminary, and a member of the supreme council of Qom seminary.[1][2] He was a member of the Assembly of Experts in its first and second terms, representing Tehran province.

Biography

He is one of the clerics who went to Najaf years before the victory of the revolution after some seminary studies in Kashan and Qom. Following border disputes between Iran and Iraq during the time of the Shah, when some Iranians living in Iraq were expelled from there, he also came to Iran.

At the same time as he was studying, he was fighting against the Pahlavi government. He became a close ally of Khomeini and suspended his studies in Najaf in order to attend Ruhollah Khomeini's class. He also participated in the clerical sit-in at Tehran University in the last months of 1978. Following the Iranian Revolution he belonged to the radical camp. In 1979 he was appointed as the spiritual guide of Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization.[3] He was also elected as member of the Assembly of Experts for the first term and elected again for the second term.[4]

References

  1. ^ "برگزاری مجلس ترحیم محسن روح‌الامینی در منزل محسن رضایی" (in Persian). tabnak.ir. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01.
  2. ^ Abbas Firouzi. "The Historic Process of the Development of the Supreme Council and Management of the Seminary". Iran Data Portal. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  3. ^ Pinar Arikan. "Uneasy Coexistence: Islamism vs. Republicanism" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  4. ^ "Members of First Assembly of Experts" (PDF). Assembly of Experts.