Reza Mohammadi Langroudi, cleric
Reza Mohammadi Langroudi –an Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Ayatollah – died on 7 March 2020 after suffering from coronavirus.
He served as representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the town of Langroud.
Reza Mohammadi Langroudi was a student of Hossein Borujerdi, Ruhollah Khomeini and Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani.
During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he played an influential role in the marches. For a time, he was the temporary Friday imam of Langroud and Amlash.
Langroudi died at the age of 91 as a result of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 7 March 2020.