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Omid Nouripour | |
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.jpg) Nouripour in 2020 | |
| Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the Alliance 90/The Greens group) | |
| Assumed office 25 March 2025 | |
| President | Julia Klöckner |
| Preceded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
| Leader ofAlliance 90/The Greens | |
| In office 29 January 2022 – 17 November 2024 Serving with Ricarda Lang | |
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| Preceded by | Robert Habeck |
| Succeeded by | Felix Banaszak |
| Member of theBundestag forFrankfurt am Main II | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Bettina Wiesmann |
| In office 1 September 2006 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Joschka Fischer |
| Succeeded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1975-06-18)18 June 1975 (age 50) |
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| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz (no degree) |
Omid Nouripour (German pronunciation:[ˈoːmɪtˈnuːʁipuːɐ̯];Persian:امید نوریپور[oˈmiːdnuːɾiːˈpuːɾ]; born 18 June 1975) is a German-Iranian politician who is serving asVice President of the Bundestag since 2025. A member ofAlliance '90/The Greens, he has been serving as a member of theBundestag since 2006, representing the state ofHesse. From 2022 to 2024, he also served as co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens, alongsideRicarda Lang.[1][2]
Earlier in his career, Nouripour was his parliamentary group's spokesman on foreign affairs, and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committee. He is ofIranian background and moved to Germany as a child.
Nouripour was born inTehran.[3] In 1988, aged 13, Nouripour immigrated toFrankfurt,West Germany, with his family.[4] He studiedGerman,political science,law,sociology,philosophy andeconomics at theUniversity of Mainz, but did not earn a degree.[5]
In 2002, Nouripour became a German citizen.[4] Because Iran does not allow its citizens to relinquish their citizenship, that country considers him an Iranian citizen as well.
Nouripour was elected to the German Federal Parliament in 2006 as the second member of Iranian descent (afterMichaela Noll-Tadjadod), taking the vacated seat of the former Foreign MinisterJoschka Fischer.[6] He has since been representing theFrankfurt am Main II district and was re-elected in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021.
Nouripour was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2014 to 2022 and of the Finance Committee from 2021 to 2022. He also served on theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid from 2014 until 2017. He has written widely on migration.[6]
In July 2015, Nouripour joined Germany’sForeign MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier on a trip toCuba. It was the first time a German foreign minister had visited Cuba since the German reunification in 1990.[7][8]
In addition to his committee assignments, Nouripour was the chairman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2018 to 2021.[9]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and theFDP following the2021 federal elections, Nouripour led his party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights; his co-chairs from the other parties wereHeiko Maas andAlexander Graf Lambsdorff.[10]
On 29 January 2022, Nouripour was elected unopposed at co-chair of the Greens, along withRicarda Lang. They succeededAnnalena Baerbock andRobert Habeck, who stepped down after joining theScholz cabinet.[11][12] Following a series of election defeats on the state level, Lang and Nouripour announced their resignation in September 2024.[13]
Following the2025 national elections, Nouripour won an internal vote againstKatrin Göring-Eckardt andClaudia Roth to become the Green Party's candidate to become one of the vice-presidents of the German Parliament.[14] In March 2025 he was elected Deputy President of the Bundestag.[15]
In 2011, Nouripour accused the aerospace companyEADS of strong-arming European governments into agreeing to fund theAirbus A400M Atlas by falsely suggesting the Franco-German-led company might otherwise collapse.[16]
Speaking on the2012 Bahraini uprising, Nouripour commented that "[a]s the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is supporting the state-repression insideBahrain,Iran acts as the protector of the Shia."[17]
In a study sent to the German foreign ministerGuido Westerwelle in May 2012, Nouripour andHans-Josef Fell proposed that Germany should helpIran expand renewable energy sources to solve the conflict over the nation’s nuclear program and prevent a war in the region.[18] Under the umbrella of the German parliaments’ sponsorship program for human rights activists, Nouripour has been raising awareness for the work of the persecuted Iranian lawyerNasrin Sotoudeh since 2012.[19]
WhenTurkey formally askedNATO in November 2012 to set up missiles on its border withSyria due to growing concern about spillover from thecivil war, Nouripour warned against Germany and NATO "letting themselves be drawn into the Syria conflict with no basis in international law."[20] However, he later voted for posting two GermanPatriot missile batteries to help bolster security along Turkey's border with Syria in the context of the NATO-backed operation Active Fence in 2015.
For years Nouripour opposed listing the Lebanese militant groupHezbollah as aterrorist organization. However, after the2012 Burgas bus bombing, he stated that “it’s now time to isolate Hezbollah.”[21]
In May 2014 and February 2016,[22] Nouripour visited theZaatari refugee camp inJordan to learn more about the plight ofSyrians fleeing the violence in theSyrian civil war that had been going on since 2011.
Until 2020, Nouripour sat on the advisory board of the German Palestinian Society (Deutsch-Palästinensische Gesellschaft), which supports theBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which was designated asanti-semitic by the German Bundestag in May 2019.[23] In the 2019 parliamentary debate on BDS, Nouripour criticised BDS actions like the call for a boycott of the2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.
In 2013 Nouripour co-sponsored an initiative at the German Bundestag aimed at singling out products from Israeli settlements in theWest Bank with a labeling system.[24][25]
OnSomalia, Nouripour has a mixed voting record. He has supportedOperation Atalanta (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2018) but for a period of time regularly abstained from votes on extending the mandate for the mission (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015). He also voted against German participation inEUTM Somalia (2014 and 2016), and abstained in 2015. After reports in 2010 that the German companyAsgaard had signed a deal with a Somali warlord to provide security services, Nouripour accused the German government of not doing enough in the past to regulate private security firms.[26]
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