Noureddin Alamouti
Noureddin Alamouti was an Iranian judge and politician. He served as the justice minister under the cabinet of Ali Amini, during which he was noted for forming a powerful anti-corruption division that led to "the last serious attempt to realize the rule of law" in Pahlavi Iran.
Early life
He came from the rural district of Alamut. In 1919, he joined the Democrat Party and was imprisoned in 1923 for "agitating among the local peasantry". Alamouti was employed at the justice ministry during the rule of Reza Shah.Political career
One of the members of the "group of fifty-three", he was jailed in 1938. He later joined the Tudeh Party of Iran immediately after its establishment in 1941 and was elected to its provisional central committee. At the party's first congress in 1944, he was elected to the central committee and served as the party's general secretary, a position he shared with Mohammad Bahrami and Iraj Eskandari.He was listed by Tudeh for a Tehran seat in the Iranian legislative election, 1943–1944, but was defeated. In 1946, Alamouti was excluded from the central committee because he was "not full-fledged Marxist". He left the party in 1947 and joined the entourage of Ahmad Qavam. Alamouti was allegedly detested by Mohammad Reza Shah.