Abdollah Nouri

Abdollah Noori (PerB| عبدالله نوری ) is an Iranian reformist politician and cleric.

Career

He was the Iranian Minister of Interior for four years in President Hashemi Rafsanjani's first term cabinet. He also served as the Minister of Interior in Mohammad Khatami's first term cabinet until his impeachment by the 5th Majlis.

He was impeached and then removed by the fifth Iranian Parliament after less than 11 months in office. Soon after, he was elected as the chief of the City Council of Tehran.

He resigned from the Council in order to participate in the sixth parliamentary election. He founded a newspaper and named it Khordad, named after the victory of President Khatami on the "2nd of Khordad, 1376" by the Iranian calendar, equivalent to May 23, 1997.

Trial

After a while, he was accused of insulting Islamic values and then tried by the Special Clerical Court in Iran. He did not accept the authority of this court, judging it to be anti-constitutional. He was convicted of insulting Ayatollah Khomeini, publishing anti-religious materials, disturbing public opinion, insulting officials, advocating links with the United States and was sentenced to five years in jail. [citation|title=Former Iranian leader candidate in elections|publisher=BBC News|date=December 15, 1999|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5663900.stm]

After about four years in prison his brother Alireza Noori, a member of parliament at the time, was killed in an accident. Mr. Noori was freed from Evin Prison when Mehdi Karroubi, speaker of the Majlis at the time, wrote a letter to the Supreme Leader and asked him to free Noori as his father was suffering from the loss of his other son.

ee also

*2nd of Khordad Movement

References

References and notes

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/597659.stm Nouri banned from Iranian election]