Ayatollah Abdul Nabi Namazi (Persian: عبدالنبی نمازی; 1948 – 28 January 2024) was an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric and politician. He was a member of the 2nd and 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from Bushehr Province. He was re-elected for the 4th and 5th Assemblies, from Tehran Province and Isfahan Province respectively.

Abdul-Nabi Namazi
عبدالنبی نمازی
Namazi in 2016
Member of the Assembly of Experts
In office
21 February 1991 – 20 February 2007
ConstituencyBushehr Province
In office
20 February 2007 – 24 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran Province
In office
24 May 2016 – 28 January 2024
ConstituencyIsfahan Province
Prosecutor-General of Iran
In office
2001–2004
Appointed byMahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Preceded byMorteza Moghtadai
Succeeded byGhorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi
Personal details
Born
Abdolnabi Namazi

1948 (1948)
Dashti County, Bushehr, Iran
Died28 January 2024(2024-01-28) (aged 75–76)
Known forAyatollah and politician

Biography

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Born in 1948,[1] Namazi was 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]

Namazi died on 28 January 2024.[5]

See also

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References and notes

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  1. ^ Abdul-Nabi Bushehri hawzah.net Retrieved 9 April 2020
  2. ^ Reporters sans frontières - Internet - Iran Archived 24 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Iranian Court Again Spares Professor's Life" BURTON BOLLAG. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington: 18 June 2004. Vol. 50, Iss. 41; p.A.41
  4. ^ Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran, New York Review of Books, 2007, p.47
  5. ^ آیت الله عبدالنبی نمازی درگذشت (in Persian)
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