Ali akbar mohtashemi biography definition

Reformists' spokesman Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur

Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur is a respected cleric rooted in the religious establishment who became a close supporter of reformist President Mohammad Khatami.

During the February parliamentary election he emerged as spokesman of a new reformist Coalition for Iran, which fielded some candidates despite the banning or withdrawal of many reformists.

Mr Mohtashami-Pur himself, though allowed to stand, decided to pull out in order, as he put it, "to sound the alarm".

But in a newspaper interview he urged fellow members of the Militant Clerics Society - to which President Khatami and parliament speaker Mehdi Karrubi also belong - to "stay and fight" the election and the reformist cause.

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The Militant Clerics Society is part of the Coalition for Iran.

Mr Mohtashami-Pur served as interior minister under the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Khomeini.

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He is generally believed to have helped found the anti-Israeli resistance movement Hezbollah in Lebanon, when he was Iranian ambassador to Syria in the early s.

In January parliament approved a bill, presented by Mr Mohtashami-Pur, calling for a special tribunal to be set up in Tehran to try "war criminals", including Israeli leaders such as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

But Mr Mohtashami-Pur's tough stance on Israel has been counterbalanced by his ever more apparent reformist credentials.

In June , his pro-Khatami Bayan daily was accused by the conservative-controlled Special Clerical Court of breaking laws on Islam and on the press. He was ordered to stop publication immediately.

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Later that month he was elected to the Majlis in the runoff poll in Tehran. Then in August , members of the reformist Second Khordad Front picked him to lead them in parliament.

Alongside his parliamentary role Mr Mohtashami-Pur has served as political adviser to President Khatami.

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