Abdollah Noori

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Abollah Noori is taken to Evin prison after being convicted of insulting Islamic values by the Special Clerical Court. Noori was a key ally of President Mohammad Khatami, his former minister of interior and chief of Tehran City Council.

Hojjatoleslam Abdollah Noori (Persian: عبدالله نوری) was the Iranianian Minister of Interior for four years in President Hashemi Rafsanjani's first term cabinet. He also served as the Minister of Interior in Mohammad Khatami's first term cabinet until his impeachment by the 5th Majlis.

He was impeached and then removed by the fifth Iranian Parliament after less than 11 months in office. He was elected as the chief of the City Council of Tehran. In order to participate in the sixth parliamental election he resigned as a member of the Council. Then he founded a newspaper and named it Khordad that refers to the victory of President Khatami in the 2nd of Khordad (a date on the Iranian calendar, equivalent to May 23rd). After a while he was accused of insulting Islamic values and then tried by the Special Clerical Court in Iran. He was convicted of insulting Ayatollah Khomeini, publishing anti-religious materials, disturbing public opinion, insulting officials, advocating links with the United States and was sentenced to five years in jail. After about four years in prison his brother Alireza Noori, who was a member of parliament at the time, was killed in an accident. As a result Mr. Noori was freed. In fact Mehdi Karroubi who was the speaker of the Majlis at the time wrote a letter to the Iran Supreme Leader and asked him to free Noori, since his father is suffering from losing his young son, namely Alireza Noori.