Kazem Seddiqi | |
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| Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2009 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1951-03-04)March 4, 1951 (age 74) Abhar,Imperial State of Iran |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani,Ruhollah Khomeini,Hussein-Ali Montazeri,Abdollah Javadi-Amoli,Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Fiqh,Kalam andphilosophy |
| Notable ideas | Political Spiritualism |
| Influenced | Hamed Kashanian, Hamed Hosseinain |
Kazem Seddiqi (Persian:کاظم صدیقی, born 4 March 1951, sometimes with the honorificAyatollah, and surname anglicised as Sedighi) is an IranianShia scholar andMujtahid currently serving asTehran'sFriday PrayerTemporary Imam. A rival ofPresident Ahmadinejad, Seddiqi was appointed as interimFriday prayers leader for Tehran byAyatollah Khamenei in 1 August 2009.The New York Times characterized the appointment as part of an effort to "reinforce [Khamenei's] authority by cultivating divisions between factions" following the controversialJune presidential election.[1]
Lately it has come to light that Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi and his sons have unlawfully took over a 4,200-square-meter (45,200 sq feet) garden at a prime location in northern Tehran through a family company, worth $20 million. The documents were leaked by Yashar Soltani, a well-known whistle blower who has exposed numerous high-ranking officials of the Iranian government.Sedighi says someone has forged his signature and "signed" the lands to his name.
Among the targets of criticism in Seddiqi's khutbahs have been "certain regional countries for `supporting` the leader of theJundallah terrorist group,Abdolmalek Rigi",[2] theUnited States PresidentBarack Obama for showing his "ugly face" by preparing a new slate of sanctions against Iran,[3] and women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously, which Seddiqi claims causes earthquakes to occur.[4][5] In response to the latter statement, hundreds of thousands of women around the world, organized through social-networking sites such asFacebook andTwitter, declared April 26, 2010, to be "Boobquake day", in which they all agreed to wear immodest clothing on the same day.[6]
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