Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani

Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani محمدرضا مهدوی کنی
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Prime Minister of Iran Acting
In office September 2, 1981 – October 29, 1981
President	Ali Khamenei
Leader	Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by	Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Succeeded by	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Interior minister of Iran
In office August 20, 1980 – October 1, 1981
Leader	Ruhollah Khomeini
Preceded by	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by	Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
Personal details
Born	Kan, Tehran, Iran
Political party	Combatant Clergy Association
Spouse	Soraya Mohammadian(m. 1955)
Residence(s)	Tehran, Iran
Website	Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani

Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani (Template:Lang-fa, born April 8, 1931 in the village of Kan, Tehran Province) is an Iranian influential cleric and conservative politician. Presently, he is the Secretary General of the Combatant Clergy Association (جامعهٔ روحانیت مبارز).He was Interim Prime Minister of Iran from September 2, 1981 to October 29, 1981. He was an important friend of Ruhollah Khomeini in the timeline of Islamic Revolution.

Education

After he finished elementary school in Kan & Tehran he attended the religious school of the late Borhan for 3 years. Then he went to Qum and, until 1961, he was a pupil of great masters of the time such as:

• Ayatollah Abdol Javad Sedei (known as Jabal Ameli)
• Allameh Tabatabaei
• Ayatollah Boroujerdi
• Ayatollah Khomeini
• Grand Ayatollah Golpayegani

Career

Early Activity

After the demise of Ayatollah Boroujerdi, he went back to Tehran and continued his struggle against the Pahlavi regime, something which he had started since he was 18, during the time of Ayatollah Boroujerdi. He was considerably active and effective in his participation in the Islamic movement of Iran led by Khomeini. Before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he was appointed by Khomeini to the Revolutionary Council and later took up various political and religious positions.

After Iranian revolution

He was the Interim Prime Minister of Iran from September 2 to October 29, 1981, appointed by a provisional presidential council, after the assassination of President Mohammad Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad Javad Bahonar. Before his prime ministership, Mahdavi Kani was Minister of Interior during the prime ministership of Rajai.

Mahdavi Kani in the founder and current head of Imam Sadegh University in Tehran, a university specializing in humanities. He has also been a member of the Constitutional Amendment Council of Iran, appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, to review and amend the Constitution of Iran in 1989.

Currently, he is the secretary of Tehran's Combatant Clergies' Association (Jame-e-y-e-Rowhaniat-e-Mobarez), president of Imam Sadiq University and also by the order of Imam Khomeini he is responsible for Tehran's Marvi religious school.

Works

Some of his works published at this time are:

"The Beginning Points in Practical Ethics"

"The Origins & Basis of Islamic Economy"

"The Book of "Beest goftar" (20 Discourses)

Positions

His responsibilities in the past:

- Chief of the Islamic Revolution Committees

- Member of the Guardian Council

- Interior Minister in Shaheed Rajaie and Bahonar cabinets. After their martyrdom he acted as caretaker prime minister too

- Member of the Higher Council of Cultural Revolution

- Being in charge of the headquarters for taking care of the war-stricken areas.

- Member of the Constitution Amendment Assembly.

- Member of the Expediency Council.

- Head of the center for attending to the mosques’ affairs.

See also

• Interim government of Iran, 1981