About Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari
Lived 1937 – 2021 (aged 83–84). Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari was an Iranian politician and ulema.
Ayatollah Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari (; 1937 – 17 November 2021) was an Iranian Shiite cleric and politician. He was a member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from the East Azerbaijan electorate. 4th term Mojtahed Shabestari won with 671,254 and last period 743,818 votes. He was MP of Islamic Consultative Assembly in the electoral district of Tehran in the beginning of the revolution for first, second, fourth and fifth terms.
He was also Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan and fourth imam Jumu'ah for Tabriz in northwest of Iran after Iranian Revolution from 1995 until his resignation in 2017. Mojtahed Shabestari was a member of Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly. His son Javad Mojtahed Shabestari is member of the Assembly of Experts from the West Azerbaijan.
Shabestari died in Tehran on 17 November 2021.
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Iranian politician (1937–2021)
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Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari was born in 1937 in Shabestar.
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Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari died on 17 November 2021 in Tehran.
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Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari was a politician and ulema.
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