Abdolreza Sheykholeslami is an Iranian politician who is the former Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare. Before that, he was the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the second cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2011. He was dismissed from office on 3 February 2013, being the ninth minister to be fired during the second term of president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad since 2009.

Nowshahr, also Romanized as Now Shahr, Noshahr, and Nau Shahr; also known as Bandar-e Noshahr, formerly Dehno, is a city in the Central District of Nowshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The largest ethnic group in Nowshahr is the Mazandarani people and they speak the Kojuri dialect of the language. They are also fluent in Persian, the official language of Iran. It is a port city on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.