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Esmail Shooshtari

Iranian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ5398413 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohammad Esmail Shooshtari (Persian: محمداسماعیل شوشتری; 1949 – 21 November 2024) was an Iranian politician who was the Minister of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1989 to 2005.

Life and career

Born in Quchan, he was a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly. He was a member of a committee that investigated the death of Zahra Kazemi. Shooshtari died on 21 November 2024.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Esmail Shooshtari” as iranian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2024, 1989, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Esmail, Shooshtari and Iranian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as iranian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5398413. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2024, 1989 and 2005.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Esmail Shooshtari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.