Abdul-Nabi Namazi | |
Office: | Member of the Assembly of Experts |
Term Start: | 21 February 1991 |
Term End: | 20 February 2007 |
Constituency: | Bushehr Province |
Term Start1: | 20 February 2007 |
Term End1: | 24 May 2016 |
Constituency1: | Tehran Province |
Term Start2: | 24 May 2016 |
Term End2: | 28 January 2024 |
Constituency2: | Isfahan Province |
Office3: | Prosecutor-General of Iran |
Term Start3: | 2001 |
Term End3: | 2004 |
Appointer3: | Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi |
Predecessor3: | Morteza Moghtadai |
Successor3: | Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi |
Birth Name: | Abdolnabi Namazi |
Birth Place: | Dashti County, Bushehr, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Known For: | Ayatollah and politician |
Ayatollah Abdul Nabi Namazi (fa|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]