Mohammad Sadoughi


Mohammad Sadoughi known as "Sevomin-Shahide-Mehrab" was an Iranian Twelver Shia Ayatollah born in Yazd.
He served as a representative of the people of Yazd in the assembly of experts and was appointed Imam of [Friday Prayer] in Yazd in 1980 by decree of the former supreme leader of Iran, Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini.
Sadoughi was born into a prominent religious family. His father, Ayatollah Mirza-Taleb, was a well-known cleric in Yazd and served as the imam of prayer at the Rozeye-Mohammadieh Mosque. Sadoughi began his early religious education at the AbdolRahman-Khan school, later continuing his studies in Isfahan before returning to Yazd. He subsequently moved to Qom, where he pursued advanced religious studies in Hawzah. Sadoughi was assassinated on 2 July 1982 after leading the Friday Prayer.

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