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 Iranian Minister of Interior for four years in President Hashemi Rafsanjani's first term cabinet. He also served as the interior minister of Iran in Mohammad Khatami's first term cabinet until his impeachment by the 5th Majlis. Evin Prison (زندان اوین) is a prison in Iran, located in the north of Tehran. ... Special Clerical Court, or Special Court for Clerics (Persian: دادگاه ویژه روحانیت) is an Iranian court for trying Muslim clerics. ... Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (Persian : سید محمد خاتمی), born September 29, 1943 in Ardakan city of Yazd province, is an Iranian intellectual, philosopher and political figure. ... City and Village Councils (full title is: Provincial, City, District and Village Councils) are local councils which are elected by public vote in all cities and villages throughout Iran. ... Persian, also called Farsi or Parsi, is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, Tajikistan and by minorities in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... President Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Bahramani kharkosteh (Persian: اکبر هاشمی بهرمانی), famously known as Hashemi Rafsanjani (هاشمی رفسنجانی) (born August 25, 1934) is one of the most... Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (Persian : سید محمد خاتمی), born September 29, 1943 in Ardakan city of Yazd province, is an Iranian intellectual, philosopher and political figure. ... Majlis is an Arabic term used to describe various types of formal legislative assemblies in countries with linguistic or cultural connections to Islamic countries. ...

He was impeached and then removed by the fifth Iran Parliament after less than 11 months. 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 council. Then he founded a newspaper and named it Khordad that refers to the victory of President Khatami in the 2nd of Khordad. 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. City and Village Councils (full title is: Provincial, City, District and Village Councils) are local councils which are elected by public vote in all cities and villages throughout Iran. ... Tehran (IPA: ; Persian: تهران, also transliterated as Teheran or Tehrān), population 7,160,094 (metropolitan: 14,000,000[citation needed]), and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. ... Khordad was a newspaper published by Abdollah Noori. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Special Clerical Court, or Special Court for Clerics (Persian: دادگاه ویژه روحانیت) is an Iranian court for trying Muslim clerics. ... Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political... Alirza Noori (Persian: علیرضا نوری; born in Iranian parliament. ... Mehdi Karroubi (مهدی کروبی; born 1939? in Aligoudarz) is an Iranian politician, the chairman and a founding member of the Militant Clerics Society party. ... Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran. ... Alirza Noori (Persian: علیرضا نوری; born in Iranian parliament. ...

See also

• Hashem Sabbaghian

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Nouri banned from Iranian election