Mohammad Nourizad (Persian: محمد نوری زاد), born 10 December 1952) is an Iranian filmmaker, activist, and former journalist for the conservative daily Kayhan.

[1] He was arrested in April 2010 after writing a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, urging him to apologize to the nation for the bloody crackdown on the opposition, after the disputed 2009 June presidential elections.

In November 2009, Nourizad wrote an open letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to apologize to the opposition for the bloody crackdown of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests.

[3] A year earlier, Nourizad had "aroused a wave of protest and criticism" with an article on his blog (Gah-e Nevesht) calling for Iran’s leading clerics to avoid getting involved in governmental affairs, after several such clerics called for the dismissal of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vice president, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.

[5] On 11 December 2010, Nourizad started a hunger strike to protest a lack of attention from Iranian authorities to his complaints of alleged mistreatment by interrogators at the Evin prison.

[6][7] On July 15, 2013, Nourizad kissed the feet of a 4-year-old Baháʼí boy whose parents had been arrested for participation in the Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education, saying: "…why shouldn't I kiss your feet as a representative of the office of [Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and the [many] Shi'ite sources of emulation?

On 29 April 2020 a voice file (duration: 7:33 minutes) attributed to Mohammad Nourizad was published on Shirin Ebadi's official Telegram channel, in which Mohammad Nourizad, from Vakil-Abad prison in Mashhad, announced: “… as to protest against the pressure on my family, I decided to commit voluntary suicide and its news will spread in ten, five, six days.