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  • Hamzeh Karami, Mohammad Nourizad, and Abdollah Momeni are only a few of such individuals.

    Omid Memarian: Why Did Iran Say "NO" to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights? Omid Memarian 2011

  • Hajjarian told me years later that he had been warned by the interior minister that both he and former minister Abdollah Nouri were next on the target list—but Nouri was by then already “safe” in prison.143

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Its embattled director, Abdollah Nouri, was a popular senior cleric and former interior minister and vice president—the one physically attacked with the culture minister after Friday prayers in 1998.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Those aspirations were manifest in the man in the dock: the supremely short, sharp, and immaculately turned out Abdollah Nouri—for years a trusted representative of Ayatollah Khomeini, more recently a high government official, subject of a vigilante beating, and reformist director of Khordad newspaper who had received the most votes in recent local elections.

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Mohseni-Ejei was accused—by dissident journalist Akbar Ganji and former interior minister Abdollah Nouri, among others—of ordering the death of Pirouz Davani, one of the dissidents killed in the 1998 chain murders.101 And there is the mysterious story from 2004, in which Mohseni-Ejei physically attacked and bit reformist journalist Isa Saharkhiz on the shoulder.102

    Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

  • Soghra Mola'i was sentenced to 15 years 'imprisonment for being an accomplice to the murder in January 2004 of her husband Abdollah, and to execution by stoning for adultery.

    Danielle Crittenden: If You're Against the War, You Have to be Against Stoning Too 2008

  • The president's words sounded too much like the pre-war rhetoric against Saddam, and many on-the-fence voters were shocked into action, said Abdollah Momeni, a political affairs expert at Tehran University.

    06/30/2005 2005

  • I know that prosternations existed before the revelation of God to his excellency Muhammad son of Abdollah peace be upon him and his pure family.

    Islam and the Blessed Virgin Mary Terry Nelson 2006

  • Hassan Firouzabadi, the joint chiefs chairman, and Abdollah Araqi were accused of wrongdoing in the crackdown on protesters and mistreatment of detainees after Iran's disputed 2009 elections.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Supporters of Ahmadinejad had at least for two years pushed to replace current chancellor Abdollah Jasbi because of his affiliation with Rafsanjani, a former pillar of the clerical establishment, whose power base came under attacks after he lent his support to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in 2009 presidential elections.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2012

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