Hashem Bathaie Golpayenagi

Hashem Bathaie Golpayenagi (, 24 March 1941 – 16 March 2020) was a Grand Ayatollah and a representative of the Tehran Province in Iran's Assembly of Experts.

He was also a Sayyid, studied in the Qom Seminary, and was lectured by Ruhollah Khomeini and other ayatollahs.

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

On 15 March 2020, the Al Arabiya English reported that he been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019. On 16 March 2020, Bathaie died in Qom due to COVID-19 during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. He was 78.

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