Mohsen Araki | |
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.jpg) Araki in 2019 | |
| Member ofExpediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 20 September 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Sadeq Larijani |
| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
| Assumed office 24 May 2016 | |
| Constituency | Markazi province |
| Majority | 242,146 |
| In office 21 February 1991 – 20 February 2007 | |
| Constituency | Khuzestan province |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1956 Najaf,Iraq |
| Website | Official website |
Mohsen Araki (Persian:محسن اراکی;Arabic:محسن الأراكي) is an Iranian scholar, cleric, university lecturer and politician. He is currently a member of theAssembly of Experts and also a member of theExpediency Discernment Council. He is a prominent Iranian scholar and one of the students of the Islamic thinkerMohammad Baqir al-Sadr.
In 2022, during2021–2022 Iranian protests, he advocated for the death penalty for protestors. He argued those who participate in the protests should be found guilty of "corruption on earth".[1]
He was born inNajaf,Iraq. He benefited from theIslamic seminary inNajaf andQom. He speaks fluentArabic andEnglish and has authored dozens of books in Persian, Arabic, and English. He was the personal representative ofAyatollahAli Khamenei (theSupreme Leader ofIran) in London and also the Head of theIslamic Centre of England until 2004.[2]
Causality and Freedom (Al-Tawhid, Volume 17, n.2, Spring 2003)
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