Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani

Iranian cleric (1941–2020)

Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani

Bathaie Golpayegani in 2018

Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
24 May 2016 – 16 March 2020
Constituency| Tehran province
Majority| 1,331,056 (29.57%)
Personal details
Born| 1941 (1941)
Guged, Isfahan province, Imperial State of Iran
Died| 16 March 2020(2020-03-16) (aged 78–79)
Qom, Iran
Cause of death| COVID-19
Education| Qom Seminary
Website| Official Website

Sayyid Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani (Persian: سید هاشم بطحایی گلپایگانی; 1941 – 16 March 2020) was an Iranian Shia Ayatollah and representative of the Tehran province in Iran's Assembly of Experts.[1] He studied at the Qom Seminary.

Bathaie ran under the People's Experts and the Friends of Moderation electoral list in the 2016 Iranian Assembly of Experts election.

Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily."[2]

On 22 February, Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani announced at a ceremony that he had been infected with COVID-19, but had healed himself using an "Islamic remedy".[3] Three weeks later, on 14 March, he was hospitalized.[3] On 15 March 2020, the Al Arabiya English reported that he had been infected with coronavirus.[4] On 16 March, Golpayegani died from the virus.[5][3]

## References

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1. ^ "Battaglia nelle urne. In Iran è testa a testa fra Rohani e Raisi". LaStampa.it (in Italian). 20 May 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
2. ^ "Video: Senior Iranian cleric who died from coronavirus blamed US for outbreak". Al Arabiya English. 19 March 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
3. ^ a b c "Prophet's perfume and flower oil: how Islamic medicine has made Iran's Covid-19 outbreak worse". The France 24 Observers.
4. ^ "Iran Assembly of Experts member infected with coronavirus". Al Arabiya English. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
5. ^ "Iran Assembly of Experts member Hashem Bathaei-Golpaygani dies of coronavirus". Al Arabiya English. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

## External links

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* Media related to Hashem Bathaie Golpayenagi at Wikimedia Commons
* Official website

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