Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Ali Tabatabaei Borujerdi was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and marja' of Iran from 1947 to his death in 1961. He was a major proponent for the elimination of the Baháʼís in I

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Ali Safi Golpaygani was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He was born in Golpayegan, Iran. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi. He taught a