Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari

Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari (Persian: يعسوب الدين رستگار جويباري) (born 1927) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric and a Grand Ayatollah.He has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari and Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani.He has repeatedly been arrested for his opposition against the current Iranian government, in particular Supreme Leader Khamenei. Khamenei's elevation to supreme leader was challenged by him.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1940
Birth place
Iran
Religion
Twelver

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