Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Iranian grand ayatollah
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Place of Birth: Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
About Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
- Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (Persian: ???? ???? ???????????), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah.
- He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away from governmental positions and was a critic of Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, denouncing the taking hostage of diplomats at the US embassy in Tehran.
- In 1982 he was accused of being part of a plot to bomb Khomeini's home and to overthrow the Islamic state, and he remained under house arrest until his death in 1986.
- His followers also opposed Ruhollah Khomeini.
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