Mohammed Emami-Kashani

{{Short description|Iranian Ayatollah (1931–2024)}}

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| image = Mohammed Emami-Kashani 2019.jpg

| caption = Emami-Kashani in 2019

| name = Mohammad Emami-Kashani

| office = Member of the Assembly of Experts

| term_start = 15 August 1983{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982/ |title=1982 Assembly of Experts Election – Iran Data Portal – 1982 Assembly of Experts Election |website=princeton.edu |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019162414/http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/elections/experts/1982/ |archive-date=19 October 2015 |url-status=dead}}

| term_end = 2 March 2024

| majority = 2,286,483

| constituency = Tehran province

| office2 = Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam

| term_start2 = 30 October 1981

| appointer2 = Ruhollah Khomeini

| term_end2 = 2 March 2024

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|10|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kashan, Persia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2024|3|2|1931|10|3|df=y}}

| death_place = Tehran, Iran

| party = Combatant Clergy Association{{cite web|url=http://www.isna.ir/news/93091207754/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%DA%A9%D9%85%D8%A7|title=موحدی کرمانی دبیرکل شد|language=Persian|trans-title=Movahedi-Kermani became the General Secretary|id=93091207754|date=3 December 2014|access-date=25 June 2016|publisher=Iranian Students' News Agency}}

| native_name_lang = fa

| native_name = {{nobold|محمد امامی کاشانی}}

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Mohammad Emami-Kashani ({{langx|fa|محمد امامی کاشانی}}; 3 October 1931 – 2 March 2024) was an Iranian politician who was a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the Interim Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iranwatch.org/library/government/iran/islamic-republic-news-agency-irna/kashani-full-access-nuclear-technology-irans-natural-right|title=Kashani: Full Access to Nuclear Technology Iran's Natural Right | Iran Watch|website=iranwatch.org|accessdate=27 March 2023}} He was also the head of Shahid Motahari University, Tehran.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

Emami-Kashani called al-Qaeda an "illegitimate child of America and Israel":{{cquote|You talk about al-Qaeda. Have you forgotten who has bred al-Qaeda? It's the illegitimate child of America and Israel, but you name it Islam. This savagery is not Islam. It is coming from inside of you and it is now punching you.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4665133.stm|title=UK invited attacks – Iran cleric|date=8 July 2005|accessdate=27 March 2023|publisher=BBC News}}}}