Alaeddin Boroujerdi () (born 21 March 1951, Najaf, Kingdom of Iraq) is a member of the Iranian Parliament since 2024. He was also a member of the Iranian Parliament between years of 2000 to 2020. He is former chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran.BBC interview
Overview In October 2011, he was arrested for embezzlement but was released after 24 hours thanks to mediation from Ali Larijani.'MP briefly arrested over bank fraud case', on Radio Zamaneh, 10/29/2011 He denied corruption charges.'Boroujerdi denies allegations of involvement in fraud', on Radio Zamaneh, 10/30/2011 However, he was pressured to resign because of the controversy.'Head of National Security Commission pressed to quit', on Radio Zamaneh, 10/31/2011
In November 2011, he asked that the British Ambassador to Iran, Dominick John Chilcott, be sent back to the United Kingdom.'Iran MPs cry 'Death to Britain' in parliament, in The Daily Telegraph, 23 November 2011
He is a supporter of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and in 2011, he accused Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's chief of staff, of leading a "deviant current" against the regime.
In 2018, Alaeddin Boroujerdi had selected one of the experienced managers of Iran's petrochemical industry, Hesam Khoshbinfar, as the head of his headquarters office.
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