It was time to retire to Qom, where he taught seminarians in steadily declining numbers.
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He spent two terms in parliament as a member for Qom, coarse but widely popular.
The semi-official ILNA agency said he died at his home in the Iranian holy city of Qom.
For now, Iraq's Najaf is too poor and insecure to challenge the dominance of Iran's clerical centre, Qom.
The plant in Qom, only modest in size, may have two possible functions.
Mojtaba Vahedi was born in 1964 to a pious household in the holy city of Qom but grew up mostly in Tehran.
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Iran revealed the existence of the Fordo enrichment facility, which is being built about 30km (20 miles) north of Qom, in September.
Mesbah-Yazdi has lived in virtual isolation for the past 20 years, holed up in de-facto exile in the Shi'ite holy center of Qom.
In recent days Mr Rafsanjani has reportedly been in the clerical capital, Qom, rallying support, though he has not yet openly shown his hand.
But this argument overlooks the fact that all the candidates for the Qom-based Assembly of Experts must be clerics, and moreover clerics approved by the Council of Guardians.
The Yemeni authorities also darkly note that the Houthis' long-time leader, Hussein al-Houthi, who died in battle in 2004, used to visit Qom, one of Shia Iran's holiest cities.
The Guardian said the top negotiator for the Iraqi government, Sami al-Askari, had flown several time to Iran to negotiate with the kidnappers in the holy city of Qom.
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He accused foreign powers of pushing the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to rebuke Iran for covering up another uranium enrichment plant near the town of Qom.
's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Friday passed a resolution demanding that Iran stop construction on a once-secret nuclear enrichment facility in the Iranian holy city of Qom.
At the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in September 2009, President Barack Obama, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy exposed a new Iranian underground uranium enrichment plant near Qom.
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Mr Khalkhali came from a generation of Shia clerics, modest in origins and radical in politics, who had spent the previous decade shuttling between the seminary at Qom, the shah's jails and lonely points of exile.
After Qom, Iran appeared to back off a bit by agreeing in principle to ship abroad much of its uranium stock (a bomb's worth or thereabouts if sufficiently re-enriched) for reworking to provide the needed reactor fuel.
's International Atomic Energy Agency asked Iran to explain the presence of particles of enrichment levels of up to 27%, found in an analysis of environmental samples taken in February at the Fordo fuel enrichment plant near the city of Qom.
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