Akbar A'lami

Akbar Aâlami is an Iranian politician, a former member of the Iranian parliament. He was nominated for 2009 and 2013 presidential elections.

Akbar A'lami has been a member of the 6th and 7th parliaments. He is well known for his direct criticism of both the Iranian leadership and the Guardian Council.

Early life Akbar Alami was born in Tabriz in August 1955 to a family from the Jargar region of East Azerbaijan, 10 kilometers from the city of Jolfa, on the border with Nakhchivan, in the city of Hadishahr, Jolfa Province. His father was a railway employee, and his workplace at the time of his birth was in Rudsar. Later he worked Bandar Shah and a year later he was permanently transferred to Tehran. Alami was the first of nine children. He spent his childhood and youth in Tehran and was very active in sports, so much so that, according to him, if he had not entered politics, he would have turned to championship sports.

He left school and was sent to Kerman as a soldier. Following,Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa on desertion, he deserted the barracks with a weapon and remained a fugitive for some time. This coincided with the height of the revolution. He went to Tehran and, with his friends, formed an armed political and cultural group called "Voice of Truth." On January 28, he was seriously wounded in a street clash and was taken to the women's ward of Shifa Yahya Hospital for about a month to avoid arrest.In 1988, he married a girl from Tehran, and they had a son and four daughters. He continued his education in three fields: economics with a focus on banking (Allameh Tabataba'i University), and law (Faculty of Law - 1987).

Representing Parliament

A'alami was a reformist and critical representative of the Seventh Parliament. For example, in a speech he gave at the office of the National Trust Party in Zanjan on December 27, 2007, he strongly criticized the per,formance of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government and called for a vote of no confidence in him. He accused Ahmadinejad of illegal actions and added that today, as members of parliament, we do not know,

The ninth presidential election and an explanation of the political concept In 2005, while she was a member of the 7th Parliament, Aalami registered as acandidate in the 9th presidential election and was disqualified by the Guardian Council,She considered her disqualification an insult to the parliament and its representatives and an attack on the dignity of the parliament, and in the open court of the parliament, she complained to the speaker, Haddad Adel.The Seventh Assembly asked her to confirm the qualifications of Mohsen Mehralizadeh and Mustafa Moein to the Supreme Leader of the Republic.