Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi (Persian: السيد علی‌محمد دستغیب شيرازي ) (born 14 March 1935)[1] is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja.

[4] Dastgheib is member of the Assembly of Experts, the body charged with selecting and supervising Iran's supreme leader.

[5] According to the news agency RFERL.org, the Iranian security forces closed the Ghoba Mosque" on January 2, 2010, and did not allow Friday prayers to take place.

During a 23 June 2011 Quranic interpretation session at the Qoba mosque in Shiraz, he urged that Iran's resources be saved for Iranians, and asking “Where should the public wealth that could make this country one of the best in the world be spent?

Should it be sent to Syria, so they can oppress the people?”[6]This biographical article about a person notable in connection with Islam is a stub.