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Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri
Nategh-Nuri in 2023
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
In office 28 May 2000 – 20 September 2022
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
3rd Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office 28 May 1992 – 27 May 2000
Preceded by	Mehdi Karroubi
Succeeded by	Mehdi Karroubi
Minister of the Interior
In office 15 December 1981 – 28 October 1985
President	Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Kamaleddin Nikravesh
Succeeded by	Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
In office 28 May 1980 – 15 December 1981
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	1,201,933 (56.3%)
In office 21 September 1986 – 27 May 2000
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Personal details
Born	(1944-10-06) 6 October 1944 (age 79) Noor, Mazandaran, Iran
Political party	Combatant Clergy Association (Inactive since 2009)[1]
Other political affiliations	Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987) Islamic Coalition Party[2]
Alma mater	University of Tehran

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri (Persian: علی‌اکبر ناطق نوری, romanized: ʿAlī Akbar Nāṭiq Nūrī; born 6 October 1944) is an Iranian politician, who served as the 3rd Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran from 1992 to 2000. He was also the Minister of the Interior of Iran from 1981 to 1985.

Early life[edit]

Nuri was the son of Abul Qasim Natiq Nuri. He came to Tehran at the age of 10 with met Ruhollah Khomeini in 1961 and joined the ranks of the opponents of the government of that time. He went to prison several times and was banned from the pulpit. Nuri has a seminary education up to the level of jurisprudence and principles. He also received a bachelor's degree in theology from Tehran University. Among his professors, we can mention Ruhollah Khomeini, Morteza Motahari, Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani and Mohammad Taghi Falsafi.

Career[edit]

Nuri was the interior minister of the Islamic Republic.^[3] He served as the Chairman of the Parliament from 1992 to 2000. He was a candidate in the 1997 Iranian presidential election.^[4][5] He was Khamanei's preferred candidate, but he lost the election to Muhammad Khatami.^[6] He was given nearly seven million votes, whereas Khatami twenty million votes.^[7] He served as an advisor to Iran's supreme leader until his resignation in 2017.^[8] He has been a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani and a critic of former Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He officially visited Egypt in 2010. He was the first person to travel to Europe at the level of the heads of the three branches of the Islamic Republic of Iran.^[8]

Remarks[edit]

Nuri was at the center of an international dispute in 2009 after he referred to Bahrain as Iran's 14th province. Bahrain paused negotiations with Iran regarding gas imports in response, and the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf condemned the remarks.^[9] The Iranian foreign minister immediately commented on the controversy and stated that Nuri's remarks about the history of Bahrain had been misinterpreted by the media and that Iran respected Bahrain's sovereignty.^[9][10] Nuri himself told Al Jazeera that his remarks about the history of the region had been misunderstood and that his comment was not relevant to today's Iran-Bahrain relationship.^[11]

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