Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani

Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani
محمد محمدی گلپایگانی
Chief of Staff of the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran
Assumed office
29 August 1989
Personal details
Born1943
Golpayegan, Iran

Gholamhossein Mohammadi (Persian: غلامحسین محمدی; born c.1943), better known as Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani (Persian: محمد محمدی گلپایگانی), is an Iranian Shia Islamic cleric who is the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran (presently Ali Khamenei), and do its related affairs since 1989. Mohammadi Golpayegani who is also famous as "Hujjat al-Islam Golpayegani" was born in 1943 (1322 S.H.) in the city of Golpayegan, in Isfahan province.

His father, Abul Qasim Mohammadi Golpayegani was well known as an Islamic scholar/commentator and likewise the Imam of Friday prayer in Golpayegan. He was among the political warriors against Pahlavi, and also among the audience in the event of attack to Feyziyeh School. Mohammadi Golpayegani is a poet, too, and there have been published his poems in the press of Iran. "Persian Gulf" is regarded among his prominent poems that describes it according to his words."