Gholamreza Hassani

Gholamreza Hassani Bozorgh-Abad غلامرضا حسنی بزرگ‌آباد
Hassani in January 2014
Title	Ayatollah
Born	(1928-08-30) 30 August 1928 (age 88) Urmia, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Era	Modern
Region	Iran
Religion	Islam
Creed	Shia Islam, The Fourteen Infallibles
Main interest(s)	Islamic History and Islamic leadership doctrine
Notable idea(s)	Sunnism is invasion of Nubuwwah.
Notable work(s)	Divine Leadership and Quran, Fiqh and Jihad
Influenced by Abdul-Adhim ibn Abdillah al-Hassani, Imam Ruhollah Khomeini
Influenced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Atieh Hassani, Mehdi Bakeri

Years active	1955-1979 Leader of Islamic militia movement against Pahlavi dynasty 1970-2014 as Friday prayer leader of Urmia
Successor	Ayatollah Qurayshi



Member of the Iranian Parliament
In office March, 1980 – August, 1980
Representative of the Supreme Leader in West Azerbaijan and Imam Jumu'ah of Urmia
In office 1980–2014
Succeeded by	Seyid Mehdi Ghoreishi

Personal details
Children	Allamah Atieh Al-Hassani, Rashid Hassani
Relatives	Imam Hasan ibn Ali
Alma mater	Qom Hawza
Awards	Order of Courage (1st class)

1955-1979 Leader of Islamic militia movement against Pahlavi dynasty

Ayatollah Gholamreza Hassani (Persian: غلامرضا حسنی‎‎, Azerbaijani: Qulamrza Həsəni) born c. 1928 is the previous Friday prayer, first First imam of Masjid-e-Jamé mosque of the city of Urmia in northwest Iran after Iranian Revolution., member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the first term from electoral district of Urmia and representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei in West Azarbaijan Province. He has been described as one of the most, if not the most, conservative voices in Iran and Shia Islam world. He is known for the highly challenging religious and political positions taken and his ultimate opposition to Caliphate and Anti-Sunni theories advocated in his controversial Friday sermons, which have reportedly drawn criticism from many of the Sunni leaders, Iranian reformists,