Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi

Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
Minister of the Interior of Iran
In office August 24, 2005 – August 12, 2008
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
Succeeded by	Ali Kordan
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Born	1959 Qom, Iran

Hojatoll-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (born in Qom circa 1959^[1]) is a politician in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2005, he was appointed as the new interior minister of the country by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with the approval of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is reportedly implicated in the 1988 Massacre of Iranian Prisoners^[2] based on the orders of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other key politicians. According to Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi was "the representative of the Ministry of Information in charge of questioning prisoners in Evin Prison" during the massacre. Montazeri saw Pour-Mohammadi as being "a central figure" in the mass executions of prisoners in Tehran.^[3]

Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi was touted as a potential neoconservative rival to Ahmadeinejad in the June 12th 2009 Presidential Election, but like many candidates who publicly discussed the possibility of running, or who allowed rumours about their candidacy to spread, he has not put his name down for the ballot. Mohammad Mahdi Faghihi, close person to Ayatollah Khamenei, was said to have assisted in his campaign^{[citation needed]}.

In an effort to end the plight of refugees, Hojatoll-Islam Pour-Mohammadi attended a meeting of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on 10 October 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland.^[4]

See also

• Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali

Preceded by Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari

Interior minister of Iran 2005-2008

Succeeded by Ali Kordan

References and notes

1. ^ Spokesman Of IRI Government - Introducing the Interior Minister
2. ^ Interior Minister Pour-Mohammadi and Iranian Human Rights Abuses U.S. State Department 11 October 2006
3. ^ hrw.org. Pour-Mohammadi and the 1988 Prison Massacres. December 2005
4. ^ Iran's murderous mullah to attend UN meeting Persian Journal 10 October 2006

External links

• Mostafa pourmohammadi official Web Site

• Iranian Interior Minister
• Iranian Resistance calls on Swiss authorities to arrest Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
• Minister: Nuclear technology institutionalized in country 08 February 2007
• Iranian Police Capable of Establishing Security
• Police Chiefs Conference, a Nonpolitical Event
• Interior Minister Answers Questions on the Sidelines of Police Conference
• More Effort Needed for Establishment of Sustainable Security

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Name	Pour-Mohammadi, Mostafa
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Date of birth	1959
Place of birth	Qom, Iran
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