Mohammad Momen

{{Short description|Iranian Ayatollah (1938-2019)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox religious biography | honorific-prefix = Ayatollah | name = Mohammad Momen | honorific-suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Mohammad Momen.jpg | image_size = 250 | alt = | caption = | religion = Shia Islam | denomination = | school = | lineage = | sect = | subsect = | temple = | order = | institute = | church =  | founder = | philosophy = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = Hawza Najaf | other_names =  | dharma_names =  | monastic_name = | pen_name = | posthumous_name = | nationality =  | flourished = | home_town = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|1|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Qom, Iran | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|2|21|1938|1|13|df=y}} | death_place = Tehran, Iran | death_cause =  | resting_place = Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom | resting_place_coordinates =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | location = | title = | period = | consecration = | predecessor = | successor = | reason = | rank = | teacher =  | reincarnation_of = | students =  | initiated = | works =  | ordination = | initiation = | initiation_date = | initiation_place = | initiator = | profession = Faqih; politician | previous_post = | present_post = | post = | website =  | signature = | background =  | module = {{infobox officeholder | embed= yes | office1 = Member of the Assembly of Experts | term_start1 = 3 September 2001 | term_end1 = 21 February 2019 | constituency1 = Qom Province | majority1 = | term_start2 = 15 August 1983<ref>{{Citation|title= 1982 Assembly of Experts Election|work= The Iran Social Science Data Portal|publisher= Princeton University|url= https://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982/|accessdate= 10 August 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151019162414/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982/|archive-date= 19 October 2015|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref> | term_end2 = 22 February 1999 | constituency2 = Semnan Province | office3 = Member of the Guardian Council | term_start3 = 17 July 1983 | term_end3 = 21 February 2019 | appointer3 = Ruhollah Khomeini<br />Ali Khamenei | party = Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom }} }} Ayatollah '''Mohammad Momen''' (13 January 1938 – 21 February 2019)<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-47325801 |script-title=fa:محمد مؤمن؛ فقیهِ قدرت |lang=fa |trans-work=BBC News |script-work=fa:فارسی |date= |access-date= }}</ref> was a Faqih and a very influential member of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

==Influence in government== He simultaneously sat on the Expediency Discernment Council and the Assembly of Experts, representing the Islamic holy city of Qom in the latter and winning in the 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election. He gained a very large percentage of the vote.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/15/iran.poll.reut/index.html CNN News]</ref> His opponent, Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, was a strong supporter and spiritual mentor of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his victory has been interpreted by some as a sign of dissatisfaction with Ahmedinejad's policies. Because of his political influence in the government, ''Siyasat'', a conservative weekly periodical, had been touted, along with the hard-line conservative Ayatollah Morteza Moghtadai, to be a possible replacement for Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/1999/12-220399.html |title=Iran Report |work=Global Security.org |date=22 December 1999 |access-date= }}</ref>

==Political position== He was a moderate conservative,<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/8b021d30-8de7-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340 Financial Times]</ref> and was considered to be an excellent student of the Qur'an. He was a notable figure among fundamentalists in Iran. Some{{who|date=July 2016}} considered him to be more of a theologian than a politician.

==References== {{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Momen, Mohammad}} Category:1938 births Category:2019 deaths Category:Burials at Fatima Masumeh Shrine Category:Iranian ayatollahs Category:Islamic Republican Party politicians Category:Members of the Expediency Discernment Council Category:Members of the Guardian Council Category:Members of the Assembly of Experts Category:Religious leaders from Qom Category:Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom members