Abstract-In this brief, a near allpass strictly stable minimal phase real valued rational IIR filter is designed so that the maximum absolute phase error is minimized subject to a specification on the maximum absolute allpass error. This problem is actually a minimax nonsmooth optimization problem subject to both linear and quadratic functional inequality constraints. To solve this problem, the nonsmooth cost function is first approximated by a smooth function and then our previous proposed method is employed for solving the problem. Computer numerical simulation result shows that the designed filter satisfies all functional inequality constraints and achieves a small maximum absolute phase error.Index Terms-Strictly stable, minimal phase, near allpass, real valued rational IIR filters, functional inequality constraints, minimax nonsmooth optimization problem.