On Monday, April 25th, 2011, Ayatollah Ahmad Iravani gave the sixth Graymoor lecture series at the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute in New York on the title “the Use of Reason in Shi’ite Islam,” at the Interchurch Center. On Sunday, April 24th, 2011, he also gave a speech on the same topic at the Masjid-e-Ali in New Jersey followed by a question and answer session on “Issues of Importance to Muslims in North America.”