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| Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri |
| Native name | علیاکبر ناطقنوری |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Birth place | Nur, Mazandaran Province, Pahlavi Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Politician, Cleric |
| Alma mater | Qom Seminary, University of Tehran |
| Known for | Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, 1997 presidential candidate |
Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri is an Iranian cleric and conservative politician who served as Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly from 1992 to 2000 and was a prominent candidate in the 1997 Iranian presidential election. He has held senior positions within institutions such as the Guardian Council, the Expediency Discernment Council, and the office of the Supreme Leader of Iran. His career spans the administrations of Ali Khamenei, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mohammad Khatami, Hassan Rouhani, and interactions with officials from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to reformist figures like Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Born in Nur, in Mazandaran Province during Pahlavi Iran, he studied at seminary institutions in Qom and pursued higher education at the University of Tehran. His religious training connected him with clerical networks around figures such as Ruhollah Khomeini, Morteza Motahhari, Mohammad Beheshti, and Hossein-Ali Montazeri. In Tehran, he became associated with student groups linked to the Islamic Coalition Party and attended academic circles that included alumni from Shahid Beheshti University and the Tehran University School of Law.
He entered national politics after the Iranian Revolution and served in roles within the revolutionary administration and organs like the Revolutionary Guards' political structures, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting oversight, and the judiciary's advisory networks. He was appointed to the Guardian Council and later became involved with the Expediency Discernment Council under the direction of figures such as Ali Khamenei and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he collaborated with conservatives in the Combatant Clergy Association, the Islamic Coalition Party, and parliamentary blocs that negotiated with reformist factions led by Mohammad Khatami, Mehdi Karroubi, and Mohammad Reza Aref.
As Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, he presided over legislative sessions that intersected with presidencies of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, parliamentary debates involving ministers such as Ali Akbar Velayati and Ata'ollah Mohajerani, and oversight issues connected to the Guardian Council and the Judiciary of Iran. His tenure saw legislative responses to post‑war reconstruction, budget negotiations with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (Iran), and clashes with reformist parliamentary groups including supporters of Mohammad Reza Khatami and Ebrahim Yazdi. He managed relationships with diplomatic actors like the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy leadership, provincial governors in Mazandaran Province and Gilan Province, and parliamentary delegations visiting countries such as Turkey, Russia, and China.
In the 1997 presidential election he was endorsed by conservative parties including the Combatant Clergy Association and the Islamic Coalition Party but lost to Mohammad Khatami, a victory that reshaped alliances among figures like Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Mohammad Reza Bahonar. After the campaign he continued in advisory and supervisory positions: membership in the Expediency Discernment Council, advisory roles to the Supreme Leader of Iran, and involvement in the Assembly of Experts' electoral politics. He participated in intra‑conservative negotiations with leaders such as Ebrahim Raisi, Sadeq Larijani, and Ali Larijani and has been referenced in discussions about candidates during elections involving Hassan Rouhani and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Identified with conservative and principlist currents, his positions align with the Conservative political movement in Iran, precepts articulated by Ali Khamenei, and institutional priorities of the Guardian Council and the Expediency Discernment Council. He has advocated for policies reflecting post‑revolutionary priorities emphasized by Ruhollah Khomeini and institutional continuity favored by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, while engaging pragmatically with reformist initiatives associated with Mohammad Khatami and economic programs discussed with Mohammad Javad Zarif advisers. On foreign policy he has tended toward positions consonant with the stances of Ali Akbar Velayati and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran), emphasizing sovereignty in interactions with actors such as the United States, European Union, Russia, and China.
He is a cleric with ties to seminaries in Qom and religious networks connected to families in Mazandaran Province and Tehran. Publicly he is portrayed as a pragmatic conservative who negotiated between hardline figures like Mohsen Rezaee and more moderate conservatives such as Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel. Media coverage in outlets sympathetic to conservative and reformist currents—ranging from Kayhan to Etemad—has alternately emphasized his institutional steadiness and electoral defeat by Mohammad Khatami. He continues to exert influence through positions in advisory councils and through connections with clerical and political institutions including the Combatant Clergy Association and the Expediency Discernment Council.
Category:Iranian politicians Category:Iranian clerics Category:Speakers of the Islamic Consultative Assembly