February 18, 2022
Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Saafi Golpayegani (photo), one of the country’s senior clerics, died January 31 in Qom. He was 103 years old. He had previously been a member of both the Assembly of Experts and the Council of Guardians. While a strong supporter of the Islamic Republic, he called on the regime to do much more to alleviate poverty and criticized its foreign policies of confrontation with many countries.
