Abdul Hussein Mo'ezzi (

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: عبدالحسين معزی;

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: المعزی عبدالحسين) (born in 1945) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer, and politician. He was born in

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. He was the personal representative of Grand Ayatollah

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

(the

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) in

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and also the Head of the Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Vienna until 2004. At present he is the personal representative of Khamenei in

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and Head of the

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Muslim students 'being taught to despise unbelievers as filth'
Living people Iranian Shia clerics 1945 births {{islam-bio-stub