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Ataollah Mohajerani

Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
In office
19 August 1997 – 19 December 2000
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Mostafa Mir-Salim
Succeeded by Ahmad Masjed-Jamei
Vice President of Iran for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
1989–1997
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
1985–1989
Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
Constituency Shiraz
Majority 122,678 (79.8%)
Personal details
Born (1954-07-23) July 23, 1954 (age 62)
Arak, Iran
Political party Executives of Construction Party
Spouse(s) Jamileh Kadivar
Children 4
Residence London, United Kingdom
Alma mater University of Isfahan
Shiraz University
Tarbiat Modares University
Religion Islam
Website http://mohajerani.maktuob.net

Seyyed Ata'ollah Mohajerani (Persian: سید عطاالله مهاجرانی‎‎, born 23 July 1954 in Arak, Iran) is an Iranian historian, journalist, author and reformist politician. Mohajerani served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami until 2000 when he was resigned from office for alleged permissiveness."

Mohajerani received his bachelor's degree in history from University of Isfahan, his master's degree in history and Iranian culture from Shiraz University and his PhD in history from Tarbiat Modares University.

Mohajerani's political career began in 1980 after the Iranian Revolution, when he won the first round of the parliamentary elections to become a representative of Shiraz and the youngest member of the majlis. Later, he became the Parliamentary Deputy to the Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, when he started to write the weekly column Naghd-e Haal in the Ettela'at newspaper, and then Vice President of Parliamentary Affairs under Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

As minister of culture and Islamic guidance, he officially announced and pursued a policy of "leniency" (Persian: تساهل و تسامح‎‎) towards the field of culture and arts and removed many restrictions. He earned the wrath of conservatives by allowing hundreds of new publications to start up, the release of fifty-some Persian pop music albums, and the screening of the controversial movie Two Women.


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