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Hamid Nouri says next president should continue path of Martyr Raeisi

Friday, 28 June 2024 2:19 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 28 June 2024 2:23 PM ]

Hamid Nouri and his family cast ballot in Iran’s 2024 presidential vote in Tehran on June 28, 2024.

Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who was recently released from prison in Sweden, has said that the next Iranian president should continue the path of martyr president Ebrahim Raeisi.

Speaking to reporters after he cast his ballot along with his family in Tehran, Nouri called for mass participation of people in the voting.

“I urge the people to participate in the vote and disappoint Iran’s adversaries like before,” he said.

He said the last time he voted was in 2021 when he was in solitary confinement in Sweden. There, he cast his ballot for Raeisi.

Nouri, who earlier this month returned to Tehran after spending five years in Swedish prisons, told reporters that he didn't think he would be released, but it finally happened, thanks to God and the steadfastness of Iranian officials.

He said his release was a demonstration of Iran’s "might and grandeur" before the entire world.

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Nouri was released in a prisoner swap that saw two Swedish nationals imprisoned in Iran return to their country.

Nouri was arrested upon arrival at Stockholm Airport in November 2019 and was immediately imprisoned over unfounded allegations raised by the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO), which is a terrorist cult that has openly boasted of carrying out terrorist operations against Iranian officials and civilians.

He spent three and a half years of his unlawful imprisonment in Sweden in solitary confinement.

A Swedish court had, in 2022, convicted Nouri of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Nouri had denied the charges brought against him, calling them fabricated.

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