Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri

1943 -

Iranian cleric; speaker of the majles.

Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri was born in Nur Mazandaran. His political activities before the revolution are said to have begun in 1963, against the Pahlavi regime. He lived briefly in Lebanon and Syria, and after the revolution in 1979, became Ayatollah Khomeini's representative in the Construction Crusade (Jihad-e Sazandegi). Nuri served as minister of the interior between December 1981 and August 1985. As of 1996, he was the speaker of Iran's parliament (majles).

— FARHAD ARSHAD