Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri | |
Birth Date: | 14 May 1923 |
Birth Place: | Qazvin, Sublime State of Persia |
Death Place: | Tehran, Iran |
Office1: | Member of Iranian Parliament |
Term Start1: | 28 May 1980 |
Term End1: | 28 May 1984 (Abstention since 10 June 1981) |
Constituency1: | Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat |
Majority1: | 1,336,435 (62.6%) |
Office2: | Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution |
Term Start2: | 15 August 1979 |
Term End2: | 15 November 1979 |
Constituency2: | Tehran Province |
Majority2: | 1,560,970 (61.5%) |
Alma Mater: | Sorbonne |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri (14 May 1923[1] – 1 January 2010) (fa|علی گلزاده غفوری) was an Iranian Shia cleric and religious progressive politician.
He ran as an independent candidate in the 1979 Iranian Constitutional Convention election. He criticized the conventional notions of private property by the establishment and enjoyed support by the People's Mujahedin of Iran, along with Mahmoud Taleghani. He was among the members of the post-revolutionary constituent assembly opposing to inclusion of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist in the constitution.
In 1980, he was elected to the parliament, and was considered sympathetic to the Freedom Movement of Iran and the parliamentary opposition to the ruling Islamic Republican Party.[2]
He left politics in 1981 and died in January 2010.
Year | Election | Votes | % | Rank | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1979 | Assembly of Experts | 1,560,970 | 61.5 | 4th | ||
1980 | Parliament | 1,336,435 | 62.6 | 10th |
All three his children and his son-in-law were members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and were executed by the authorities.