Ali Reza Panahian (also Ali-Reza Panahian; fa, علیرضا پناهیان; born 1965

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) is an Iranian

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Scholar and official. He is a

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(a "middle-ranked" Shia cleric) and head of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's "think tank for universities." In February 2011 he was among some "70 high-ranking" officials of the Islamic Republic who established an "`Ammar` organization" or "Ammar Headquarters" calling for the "trial and execution" of former presidential candidates and

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protest leaders

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and

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. Raja News has listed him as one of 40-odd "students, confidants and political companions" close to most ideological leader Ayatollah

Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah ( fa, تقی مصباح‌; born Taqi Givechi, fa, تقی گیوه‌چی), commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ( fa, محمدتقی مصباح‌ یزدی, 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shi' ...

. Panahian also addressed the 2010 "Islamic Unity Seminar" in

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on the subjects of the Prophet

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's "character and Islamic Unity."Hojatolislam Ali Reza Panahian addressed the Islamic Unity Seminar in Pakistan
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In July 2010 he issued a statement "calling for the purge of `liberal-minded and clean-shaven` individuals from government offices" and warned against an unnamed "group that 'will wage a war on values under the cover of Islamic slogans and symbols'". He believes that religiosity must be accompanied by inner passion and happiness. He also lectures extensively on apocalypse and

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family and raising children, and publishing

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