One of the people who really had an impact…
One of the people who really had an impact during my youth was firstly, the late [Sayyid Mujtaba] Navvab Safawi. When he came to Mashhad I was around 15 years old and I was really impacted by his personality. Later, when he left Mashhad, within a few months they martyred him in a really oppressive way. This martyrdom of his left an even greater impact upon me.
