Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Tavassoli ( fa, محمدرضا توسلی) (1931–2008) was an influential
Iranian
theologian,
reformist politician, and a close associate of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...
.Tavassoli was a member of the
Expediency Discernment Council of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. He belonged to the
Militant Clerics League. Ayatollah Tavassoli simultaneously held a seat in the 3rd
Assembly of Experts.
Tavassoli died on 16 February 2008, from a heart attack, while delivering a speech to the Expediency Council. He was 77 years old at the time of his death.
Iranian Ayatollah dies during speech
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(February 17, 2008).
See also
* List of members of Constitutional Amendment Council of Iran
A constitutional referendum was held in Iran on 28 July 1989, alongside presidential elections. Allegedly approved by 97.6% of voters, it was the first and so far only time the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been amended. It made ...
*List of Ayatollahs
This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Usuli Shi'a Muslim clerics. Its ranking is higher than Hujjat al-Islam, and the next higher clerical rank is Grand Ayatollah also known as Marja'. This list contains only t ...
References and notes
1931 births
2008 deaths
Iranian Islamists
Iranian ayatollahs
Shia Islamists
Members of the Expediency Discernment Council
Members of the Assembly of Experts
Association of Combatant Clerics politicians
People from Mahallat
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