Mohammad Reza Aref
Mohammad Reza Aref | |
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Aref in 2025 | |
| 2nd and 8th First Vice President of Iran | |
| Assumed office 28 July 2024 | |
| President | Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Mokhber |
| In office 26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Hassan Habibi |
| Succeeded by | Parviz Davoodi |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020 | |
| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 1,608,926 (49.55%) |
| Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 16 March 2002 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
| Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran | |
| In office 26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Succeeded by | Ali Saeedlou |
| Vice President of Iran Head of Management and Planning Organization | |
| In office 2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Najafi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Sattarifar |
| Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone | |
| In office 20 August 1997 – 17 June 2000 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Gharazi |
| Succeeded by | Nasrollah Jahangard (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 December 1951 Yazd, Imperial State of Iran |
| Political party | Omid Iranian Foundation[1] |
| Other political affiliations | Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)[2] |
| Spouse(s) | Hamideh Moravvej Farshi |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran Stanford University |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Signature | |
| Website | Official 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 is the Vice President of Iran since 2024, and previously from 2001 until 2005.
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Iranian Reformists and February Parliamentary Elections", Iranian Diplomacy, 13 November 2015, archived from the original on 7 August 2017, retrieved 24 April 2017