Iranian ayatollah (1948–2024)
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.
Biography
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]
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