He is a prominent Iranian scholar and one of the students of the Islamic thinker Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.

In 2022, during 2021–2022 Iranian protests, he advocated for the death penalty for protestors.

He argued those who participate in the protests should be found guilty of "corruption on earth".

He was the personal representative of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (the Supreme Leader of Iran) in London and also the Head of the Islamic Centre of England until 2004.

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