Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri

Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri (; born 6 October 1944) is an Iranian politician, who served as the 3rd Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran from 1992 to 2000. He was also the Minister of the Interior of Iran from 1981 to 1985.

Career Nuri was the interior minister of the Islamic Republic. He served as the Chairman of the Parliament from 1992 to 2000. He was a candidate in the 1997 Iranian presidential election. He was Khamanei's preferred candidate, but he lost the election to Muhammad Khatami. He was given nearly seven million votes, whereas Khatami twenty million votes. He served as an advisor to Iran's supreme leader until his resignation in 2017. He has been a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani and a critic of former Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He officially visited Egypt in 2010. He was the first person to travel to Europe at the level of the heads of the three branches of the Islamic Republic of Iran.