Mohammad Reza Aref

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Mohammad Reza Aref
Aref in 2016
First Vice President of Iran
In office
11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byHassan Habibi
Succeeded byParviz Davoodi
Vice President of Iran
Head of Management and Planning Organization
In office
2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad-Ali Najafi
Succeeded byMohammad Sattarifar
Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
In office
19 August 1997 – 1 December 2000
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad Gharazi
Succeeded byNasrollah Jahangard (acting)
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority1,608,926 (49.55%)
Personal details
Born (1951-12-19) 19 December 1951 (age 72)
Yazd, Imperial State of Iran
Political partyOmid Iranian Foundation[1]
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)[2]
Spouse(s)Hamideh Moravvej Farshi
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
Stanford University
OccupationAcademic
Signature
WebsiteOfficial persian website
Official academic website

Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician.[3] He was the Vice President of Iran from 2001 until 2005.

References[change | change source]

  1. "A look at Iranian newspaper front pages". Iran Front Page. 26 October 2014. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. Buchta, Wilfried (2000), Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, p. 180, ISBN 0-944029-39-6
  3. "Iranian Reformists and February Parliamentary Elections", Iranian Diplomacy, 13 November 2015, archived from the original on 7 August 2017, retrieved 24 April 2017