1. Omid Nouripour is of Iranian background and moved to Germany as a child.
16 Facts About Omid Nouripour
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In 1988, aged 13, Omid Nouripour immigrated to Frankfurt, West Germany, with his family.
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Omid Nouripour studied German, political science, law, sociology, philosophy and economics at the University of Mainz, but did not earn a degree.
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Omid Nouripour was elected to the German Federal Parliament in 2006 as the second member of Iranian descent, taking the vacated seat of the former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
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Omid Nouripour has since been representing the Frankfurt am Main II district and was re-elected in 2009,2013,2017 and 2021.
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Omid Nouripour was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2022 and of the Finance Committee from 2021 to 2022.
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Omid Nouripour served on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid from 2014 until 2017.
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In July 2015, Omid Nouripour joined Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on a trip to Cuba.
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In 2011, Omid Nouripour accused the aerospace company EADS of strong-arming European governments into agreeing to fund the Airbus A400M Atlas by falsely suggesting the Franco-German-led company might otherwise collapse.
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Under the umbrella of the German parliaments' sponsorship program for human rights activists, Omid Nouripour has been raising awareness for the work of the persecuted Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh since 2012.
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For years Omid Nouripour opposed listing the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
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In May 2014 and February 2016, Omid Nouripour visited the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan to learn more about the plight of Syrians fleeing the violence in the Syrian civil war that had been going on since 2011.
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Until 2020, Omid Nouripour sat on the advisory board of the German Palestinian Society, which supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which was designated as anti-semitic by the German Bundestag in May 2019.
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In 2013 Omid Nouripour co-sponsored an initiative at the German Bundestag aimed at singling out products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank with a labeling system.
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Omid Nouripour has supported Operation Atalanta but for a period of time regularly abstained from votes on extending the mandate for the mission.
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Omid Nouripour voted against German participation in EUTM Somalia, and abstained in 2015.