Grand Ayatollah Hossein Noori-Hamedani is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' known for his conservative views.
He has expressed his disapproval of Sufis and dervishes, Jews, the intellectual Abdolkarim Soroush and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; His support for the purge of "anti-Islamic and atheist professors" from Iranian universities. From Wikipedia
