He also produced programs for the national television network. Politically, he was a conservative and admirer of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But after the Supreme Leader took the hardliners' side and ordered the violent crackdown on the Green Movement in 2009, Nourizad turned against him. He began writing open public letters to Khamenei, warning him about the consequences of what he was doing and criticizing severely what was going on. He had already caused a stir a year earlier with an article in which he called on the clerics to stop interfering in politics.