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Abdullah Nouri

Abdollah Nouri
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Chairman of City Council of Tehran
In office
29 April 1999 – 11 September 1999
Deputy Saeed Hajjarian
Succeeded by Abbas Douzdouzani
Minister of the Interior
In office
15 August 1997 – 21 June 1998
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Ali Mohammad Besharati
Succeeded by Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
In office
3 August 1989 – 13 December 1993
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Preceded by Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur
Succeeded by Ali Mohammad Besharati
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1996 – 14 August 1997
Constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority 1,429,909 (31.3%)
In office
28 May 1984 – 28 May 1988
Constituency Isfahan
Majority 102,248 (64.8%)
Personal details
Born 1950 (age 66–67)
Isfahan, Iran
Political party Association of Combatant Clerics
Relatives Alireza Noori (brother)
Military service
Service/branch Revolutionary Guards
Years of service 1989
Commands Supreme leader's representative

Abdollah Noori (Persian: عبدالله نوری‎‎ About this sound pronunciation ) is an Iranian cleric and reformist politician. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution when he was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious dissent in 1999. He has been called the "" of Islamic conservatives in Iran.

Noori is a senior member of Association of Combatant Clerics, and also close ally of the Executives of Construction Party.

Abdollah Nouri was called a "trusted lieutenant" of Ayatollah Khomeini who was "the religious guide to the Revolutionary Guards early in the revolution." Khomeini appointed him as his representative to many other important organisations as well. Khomeini's successor, supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also appointed him a member "of a powerful council which advises him on major policies". However Abdollah Nouri also supported dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, who was placed under house arrest in 1997 for questioning the authority of Ayatollah Khamenei.


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