Abdolreza Ghanbari

Abdolreza Ghanbari (born ) is an Iranian university lecturer convicted of Moharebeh (waging war against God). Initially condemend to death, his sentence was commuted to a 15 year sentence in 2013.

Ghanbari is lecturer at Payam e Nour University, and married father of two. In 2007, he was detained for 120 days and sentenced to a six-month suspension from teaching and exiled from Sari to Pakdasht. He was arrested at his home in Pakdasht (southwest of the capital of Tehran) on January 4, 2010, in the wake of Ashura (December 27, 2009) protest against the election of President Ahmadinejad. but this seems to have been overturned and a request for pardon of the death sentence was rejected on February 28, 2012, by the Commission of Justice in Tehran, clearing the way for authorities to proceed with his execution. Complicating his situation is the fact that his lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was herself condemned to a six-year sentence in Evin prison for "propaganda against the regime" and "acting against national security". In June 2023, the Tehran Revolutionary Court commuted Ghanbari's sentence to 15 years in prison and internal exile to Borazjan in southern Iran.

Abdolreza Ghanbari's wife and mother of two, Sakineh Habibi, is fighting his conviction and sentence and is quoted as saying: