HAMEDAN -- Head of the Justice Department of Hamedan Province Hojjatoleslam Zekrollah Ahmadi said here on Tuesday that the court hearing for Seyed Hashem Aghajari, a member of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization (IRMO), will be held in Hamedan.

Ahmadi told IRNA on Tuesday that the subpoena for Aghajari has been issued by Bench 14 of Hamedan Justice Department.

He said Aghajari had been summoned to the court on the basis of a series of complaints lodged against him for insulting Islamic sanctities.

The judicial official declined to elaborate on the details of the case.

On Thursday, President Mohammad Khatami in the northwestern city of Khalkhal in the Ardebil Province criticized those who were 'insulting and weakening' clerics in the name of intellectualism and reform.

"Today, some neither can nor must undermine the clergy and dignified religious leadership of Islam in the name of intellectualism, nor should they misuse this issue for their factional interests in the name of being revolutionary and promoting Islam," the Iranian president said.