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Abdul-Nabi Namazi | |
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عبدالنبی نمازی | |
Member of the Assembly of Experts | |
In office 21 February 1991 – 20 February 2007 | |
Constituency | Bushehr province |
In office 20 February 2007 – 24 May 2016 | |
Constituency | Tehran province |
In office 24 May 2016 – 28 January 2024 | |
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 1948 Dashti County, Bushehr, Iran |
Died | 28 January 2024 | (aged 75–76)
Known for | Ayatollah and politician |
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.
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]