Ahmad Tavakkoli
| Ahmad Tavakkoli | |
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| President of the Majlis Research Center | |
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In office 2004 – 1 July 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
| Succeeded by | Kazem Jalali |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 2004 – 28 May 2016 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 776,979 |
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In office 28 May 1980 – 12 November 1981 |
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| Constituency | Behshahr |
| Majority | 28,850 |
| Minister of Labour | |
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In office 1981–1983 |
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| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi |
| Succeeded by | Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 5, 1951 Behshahr, Iran |
| Political party | Front of Transformationalist Principlists |
| Other political affiliations |
Islamic Republican Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization |
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| Residence | Tehran, Iran |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Religion | Islam |
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Ahmad Tavakkoli (Persian: احمد توکلی, born 5 March 1951) is an Iranian conservative politician, journalist and anti-corruption activist. He is currently managing-director of Alef news website and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch.
Tavakkoli is former representative of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district in the parliament and the director of Majlis Research Center.
Tavakkoli was the minister of labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami).
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK, where he received his PhD.
Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, including Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani.
Tavakkoli is also one of the fierce critics of the President Ahmadinejad. On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches.
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