Ahmad Azari Qomi

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Ahmad Azari-Qomi ( listen ? / I , PersianAudio file / audio sample احمد آذری قمی, DMG Aḥmad Āẕarī Qomī ; * approx. 1925; † 1999 ) was an Iranian cleric and Grand Ayatollah who stood in opposition to the Iranian regime. He died shortly after criticism of the Iranian head of state Ali Khamene'i .

Origin and work

Azari Qomi comes from a clerical family. At the age of two, his family moved to Qom , where his father continued to study Islamic Sciences.

Grand Ayatollah Azari-Qomi was a co-founder of the Society of Seminar Teachers in Qom and was a member of the Expert Council of Iran, which selected the head of state Khamenei as his successor in office. He also founded the Resalat Foundation , a religious organization closely related to the bazaar merchants , who in turn own the Resalat newspaper . Azari-Qomi also worked as a Revolutionary Prosecutor.

Events before his death

Grand Ayatollah Azari-Qomi was arrested in 1997 after he published an open letter outside of Iran in the London magazine Nimrooz . In the 34-page article, Azari-Qomi sharply criticized the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Chamene'i , and questions the rule of the Velayat-e Faqih religion . He accused Chamene'i of personal responsibility for founding Ansar-e Hezbollah , which had terrorized liberal scholars and clerics since 1995, and made him responsible for the rampant moral corruption within the Iranian regime and the Iranian clergy which has "withered the roots of decency. " Azari-Qomi also criticized the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran for torturing the son of the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussaini Shirazi . Literally, Azari-Qomi wrote:

Even if he rejects the velayat-e faqih , why torture his children? Security organizations should learn from the shameful fate of the SAVAK ...

Azari-Qomi demanded the immediate dissolution of the special court for the clergy , which had arrested numerous followers of the Grand Ayatollah Shirazi and had them tortured.

In his letter, Azari-Qomi, following the quietist tradition of Shiite Islam and following the Khomeini teacher Hossein Borudscherdi , suggested dividing the velayat-e faqhi into two areas:

  • Theological authority
  • Political authority

Azari-Qomi demands the appointment of Ayatollah Montazeri for the area of ​​theological authority, while Ali Khamene'i should remain responsible for political authority .

Finally, Azari-Qomi reminded the new President Mohammad Chātami that he, endowed with the power of 23 million voters, has the possibility of redefining the role of the Supreme Leader by means of a referendum. Literally:

With their vote in your favor, our brave people have brought the whole of the present leadership under question and I'm proud of it. But, dear Mr president, be careful of not becoming the last of the presidents of the Islamic Republic, for this is what may well be your fate if you do not act now to stop at once present injustices committed under the name of Islam.

In response to this article, Azeri-Qomi was forcibly removed from Qom religious institutions on November 10th.

On November 26, 1997, the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared in a televised address that the Grand Ayatollahs Montazeri and Azari-Qomi had committed treason against the people, against the revolution and against the country and ordered the judiciary to punish them accordingly Law.

The news agency Iran News reported on 5 February 1998 that the magazine Jomhuri Islami an article about a meeting of members of the Expediency Council in Mashhad have printed, was where the exclusion of Azari Qomi decided from the council. Azari-Qomi died in 1999 at the age of 74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Safa Haeri , Iran Press Service : Ayatollah Azari-Qomi To The Leader: "The People Will Consign Us To The Dustbing Of History"
  2. ↑ Azari Qomi in the weekly magazine Nimrooz ( Memento of August 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) 1997: Open letter to the Supreme Legal Scholar of Iran
  3. ^ FDI Newswire Number 36 Feb. 18 , 1997
  4. ^ Action memorandum 037 - The Foundation for Democracy in Iran . December 4, 1997. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Azari Qomi, Ahmad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Azari-Qomi, Ahmad (full name); احمد آذری قمی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian cleric and Grand Ayatollah
DATE OF BIRTH around 1925
DATE OF DEATH 1999