Iran’s prominent cleric, Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Saafi Golpayegani, passed away at the age of 103 following a cardiac arrest at a hospital in the holy city of Qom.

Secretary of the Constitutional Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said Imam Khomeini, the revered founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, helped revitalize religious democracy and political Islam during Pahlavi’s reign.

Constitutional Spokesman Hadi Tahan-Nazif on Saturday held his monthly press briefing in the Iranian capital Tehran.

Hadi Tahan-Nazif, the spokesman of the Constitutional Council, said the watchdog body always welcomes amending the country’s electoral law based the general policies on elections.

The spokesman of the Constitutional Council posted a message on his official Twitter account on Monday, paying tribute to Iran’s legendary anti-terror commander Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

In a statement on Sunday, the Constitutional Council, also known as the Guardian Council, described Iran’s legendary anti-terror commander Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani as a thorn in the eyes of enemies, stressing that his path will not be stopped.

It was during the first days of 2011 that the flames of war were gradually rising in some of the cities of Syria, a country located in West Asia–the eastern bank of the Mediterranean. In those days, a terrorist group found the ground prepared for them to cause havoc by ruthlessly attacking innocent people. ISIS–the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria–was a malicious, sinister tree that caused grave tragedies for the two countries of Syria and Iraq with the purpose of creating discord in the world of Islam. It wanted to pursue other sinister goals in the region as well after dominating these two countries, but its dream of forming a government based on terror and murder turned into a dark nightmare not so long later.

Secretary of the Constitutional Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati congratulated all Christians on the birth anniversary of the divine prophet, Jesus Christ.

Secretary of the Constitutional Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati congratulated the Iranian university students on the occasion of Student’s Day, noting that today’s students are future’s leaders.

The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran was adopted by referendum on December 2 and 3 1979, and went into force replacing the Constitution of 1906.