Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi

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Seyyed Kazem Nourmofidi was appointed by Imam (Rohollah) Khomeini (1900-1989) as Friday Prayer Imam (Imam Jomie) of Gorgan, Iran, in summer 1979, only six month after the victory of the Islamic Revolution (10-11 February 1979). He was born in Gorgan in 1943. He started his theological studies at a very young age in Gorgan and later joined the Qom Islamic Seminary. He was studying in Qom around the time when Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Iran's Supreme Leader, from 1989)and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Iran's Expediency Council Chief) were also students there. He is married with four children, three sons & a daughter. He was appointed as special representative of Imam Khomeini, in Gorgan-o Dasht region in fall 1982. His position was reaffirmed by Imam Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in 1989. He lives in a modest house (built in early 1980s) in an ancient localty of Gorgan. He is considered to be a traditionally conservaive clergyman with some reformist tendencies in modern politics of Iran.

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