Yousef Tabatabai Nejad

(Seyyed) Yousef Tabatabai Nejad (sometimes spelled as Tabatabaei-Nejad) is a Shia cleric and Friday leading prayer that represents the Isfahan Province in Iran's Assembly of Experts. Tabatabai is a hardline conservative who in 2016 claimed that the act of women taking pictures of themselves in the Zayanderud river contributed to a drought in said river.On October 1st 2020 meeting with NAJA and Intelligence Ministry of Iran he said we should make society unsafe for women not wearing hijab raising alarm for the fear of repeat of Acid attacks on women in Isfahan.[3][4][5][6][7]

Seyyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
سید یوسف طباطبایی‌نژاد
Ayatollah Seyyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad during an interview with Mehr News Agency in 2015.
Representative of the Supreme Leader in Isfahan and Imam Jumu'ah of Isfahan
Assumed office
2002 September 11[1]
Appointed byAli Khamenei
Preceded byJalal Al-Din Taheri[2]
Personal details
Born1944
Ardestan, Iran
Alma materQom Hawza

Views

In 2015 he said women should be denied working in stores and offices.[8] In 2019, he made municipality of Isfahan to deny women access to bicycles legally shutting down two city bicycle stations.[9][10][11]

He is critical of possible changing of supreme leader position to council.[12]

References
  1. Ayatollah Tabatabai Nejad, Imam Jumu'ah of Isfahan Says from his Appointment Archived 2020-10-03 at the Wayback Machine donya-e-eqtesad.com
  2. Passing away of Ayatollah Taheri Archived 2020-10-03 at the Wayback Machine tarikhirani.ir
  3. "نگرانی از تکرار اسیدپاشی‌ به زنان پس از سخنان امام جمعه اصفهان". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 2020-10-03. Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. "واکنش منفی گسترده به درخواست یک امام جمعه برای برخورد با «بدحجابان»". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. "طباطبایی نژاد: باید فضای جامعه را برای هنجارشکنان ناامن کنیم". ایمنا (in Persian). 2020-10-02. Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  6. "A cleric has told Iranian women their clothing is causing rivers to dry up". 11 June 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  7. "Ayatollah blames drought on selfies". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  8. "امام جمعه اصفهان: فعالیت زنان در ادارات ممنوع شود". رادیو فردا (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  9. "محدودیت‌های بیشتر برای دوچرخه سواری زنان". ایندیپندنت فارسی (in Persian). 2020-06-25. Archived from the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  10. "دوچرخه‌سواری زنان در اصفهان ممنوع شد". ار.اف.ای - RFI (in Persian). 2019-05-14. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  11. "دادستان اصفهان: دوچرخه‌سواری زنان در فضای عمومی ممنوع". euronews (in Persian). 2019-05-14. Archived from the original on 2020-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-09-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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