Hossein Noori Hamedani Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2022, he urged the Iranian government to listen to the demands of the protestors.

Among his reported views are that Iran “must purge universities of anti-Islamic and atheist professors.” In September 2006, he called for a clampdown on dervish groups in Qom. He also issued a fatwa against the attendance of women in stadiums. In early 2008, he issued what some see as an implicit death threat against Iranian intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush, saying “Soroush’s writings are worse than Salman Rushdie’s”, and “Abdolkarim Soroush’s religious theories have undermined the roots of prophecy, the Quran and holy revelations”.

In connection with the Iranian legislature’s ratification of a bill on Iranian membership in the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), ISNA reported Nuri-Hamadani issued a statement on 2 August 2003 describing the convention as “calamitous and tragic, as well as a Western and U.S. ploy to harm Islam.” According to him, when the convention was brought to Qom, all the religious authorities opposed it as contrary to Islam.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani (Persian: آيت الله العظمى حسين نورى همدانى) (born March 21, 1925) is an Iranian Twelver Shi’a Marja.