Yousef Tabatabai Nejad

Seyyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad
سید یوسف طباطبایی‌نژاد
Ayatollah Seyyed Yousef Tabatabai Nejad during an interview with Mehr News Agency in 2015.
Member of the 4th, 5th and 6th Assembly of Experts
In office 20 February 2007 – incumbent
Representative of the Supreme Leader in Isfahan and Imam Jumu'ah of Isfahan
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 September 2002[1]
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Preceded by	Jalal Al-Din Taheri[2]
Personal details
Born	1944 Ardestan, Iran
Alma mater	Qom Hawza

(Seyyed) Yousef Tabatabai Nejad (sometimes spelled as Tabatabaei-Nejad) is an Iranian Shia cleric and Friday leading prayer that represents the Isfahan Province in Iran's Assembly of Experts.

Views

In 2015, he said women should be denied working in stores and offices.^[3] In 2019, he made municipality of Isfahan to deny women access to bicycles legally shutting down two city bicycle stations.^[4][5][6]

In 2016, he claimed that the act of women taking pictures of themselves in the Zayanderud river contributed to drought in said river.

He is critical of the possible changing of the supreme leader position to the council.^[7]

On October 1, 2020, while meeting with the NAJA and the Intelligence Ministry of Iran, he believes that law enforcement should make, "the life of the unveiled unsafe". This has raised concerns for repeated Acid attacks on women in Isfahan.^{[8][9][10][11][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. "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.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "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.
7. "نماینده ولی فقیه در استان اصفهان: تشكیل شورای رهبری، ایده صحیحی نیست - ایرنا". Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
8. "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.
9. "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.
10. "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.
11. "A cleric has told Iranian women their clothing is causing rivers to dry up". Independent.co.uk. 11 June 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
12. "Ayatollah blames drought on selfies". The Times. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.