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Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi's Background

10/30/01

Hashemi was born and educated in the Iraqi city of Najaf, a Shiite Moslem stronghold. He came to Iran after 1979, helping to found a Shiite group opposed to the Iraqi government. He was appointed as head of Iran's Judiciary in August 1999. He is a member of both the Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint or sack the country's supreme leader, and the Expediency Council, a top advisory body to Khamenei

Works: Hokoumat-e Eslami (Islamic Government), Jahanbini Eslami (Islamic world view), articles on jurisprudential subjects, Khoms (Islamic levy on certain things), tens of intellectual articles.


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