Alireza Noori was a member of the 6th Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian parliament

Majlis of Iran

The National Consultative Assembly of Iran , also called The Iranian Parliament or People's House, is the national legislative body of Iran...

 and a supporter of President Mohammad Khatami

Mohammad Khatami

Sayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...

's reform programs. He was the brother of Abdollah Noori

Abdollah Noori

Abdollah Noori is an Iranian reformist politician and cleric. Despite his "long history of service to the Islamic Republic," he became the most senior Islamic politician to be sentenced to prison since the Iranian Revolution when he was sentenced to five years in prison for political and religious...

. Dr. Alireza Noori was educated in medicine and was a practicing physician before entering politics.

Noori was killed in a car accident in northern Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

during his term in the parliament. Allegations of conspiracy surrounded the tragic accident in which another reformist member of the parliament, Masoud Hashemi Zehi, from Khash, Sistan-Baluchistan, was also killed.

Sources

• Details of the car crash claiming lives of two MPs