Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers

The Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers (also Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom) is a political party and association of Shia Islamic clerics in Iran's religious capital of Qom. It was founded in 2001, as a support group for the Reformist movement and then-President of Iran Mohammad Khatami. Many of its members were students of Ayatollah Montazeri, who was a major patron of the association until his death in 2009. Ayatollah Musavi Tabrizi serves as its Secretary-General and representative to the House of Parties of Iran. He became their leader in 2004 when their first leader Ayatollah Abayi Khorasani died. It has been linked to the marājiʿ Ayatollah Sane’i and Ayatollah Ardabili.