Abdollah Javadi-Amoli

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli (Persian: عبدالله جوادی آملی‎; born 5 May 1933) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza.

Quotes

 * Where are those proud people who will not allow the tomb of Ali to be a target for the bullets of this armed infidel called America? Where are the guardians of (Imam) Hosein's honor, who will prevent the Najaf Seminary and the Iraqi Shiites from becoming targets for the horrible attacks of the infidel bullets? Now the infidels are attacking the most holy cities and countries of Islam.
 * Excerpts from a Friday Sermon, Qom, Iran August 2004.


 * ...the UN is in the hands of America. The Security Council is in the hands of America. The IAEA Board of Governors is in the hands of America.
 * Friday Sermon in Qom, Iran: Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli Calls on Americans Not to Vote for Bush, June 19, 2004.