Abdul-Nabi Namazi
Ayatollah Abdul Nabi Namazi (Persian: عبدالنبی نمازی; born 1945)[1] is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and politician. He was a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran who won re-election for the 4th and 5th Assemblies.
Abdul-Nabi Namazi عبدالنبی نمازی | |
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| Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
| In office 8 October 1990 – 15 December 2006 | |
| Constituency | Bushehr Province |
| In office 15 December 2006 – 26 February 2016 | |
| Constituency | Tehran Province |
| Assumed office 26 February 2016 | |
| Constituency | Isfahan Province |
| Prosecutor-General of Iran | |
| In office 2001–2004 | |
| Appointed by | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
| Preceded by | Morteza Moghtadai |
| Succeeded by | Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abdolnabi Namazi 1945 (age 77–78) Dashti County, Bushehr, Iran |
| Known for | Ayatollah and Iranian Politician |
Namazi was formerly the prosecutor-general for the judiciary of the Islamic Republic[2] and received some notoriety in 2002 when he was criticized by the conservative newspaper Jumhuri Eslami, for "flagrantly" ignoring Supreme Leaders Ali Khamenei's order to review a death sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics...[3][4]
See also
- 2006 Iranian Assembly of Experts election
- List of Ayatollahs
- Prosecutor-General of Iran
- List of members in the Second Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Third Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Fourth Term of the Council of Experts
- List of members in the Fifth Term of the Council of Experts
References and notes
- Abdul-Nabi Bushehri hawzah.net Retrieved 9 April 2020
- Reporters sans frontières - Internet - Iran Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
- "Iranian Court Again Spares Professor's Life" BURTON BOLLAG. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: Jun 18, 2004. Vol. 50, Iss. 41; p.A.41
- Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran, New York Review of Books, 2007, p.47
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