Behzad Nabavi
| Behzad Nabavi | |
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| First Deputy of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 28 May 2002 – 28 May 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
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In office 26 May 2000 – 28 May 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Hassan Rouhani |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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In office 26 May 2000 – 18 April 2004 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 1,148,840 (39.19%) |
| Minister of Heavy Industries | |
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In office 31 May 1982 – 27 August 1989 |
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| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Mostafa Hashemi |
| Succeeded by | Hadi Nejad Hosseynian |
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Minister without portfolio and Advisor in Executive Affairs |
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In office 10 September 1980 – 31 May 1982 |
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| President |
Abolhassan Banisadr Mohammad Ali Rajai Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister |
Mohammad Ali Rajai Mohammad Javad Bahonar Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Succeeded by | Gholam Reza Aghazadeh |
| Personal details | |
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29 September 1941 Tehran, Iran |
| Political party | Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization |
| Other political affiliations |
MIRO (1979-1986) MKO (1969-1975) NF (1961-1965) |
| Spouse(s) | Hengameh Razavi |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Amir Kabir University of Technology |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| Nickname(s) | The Old Guerilla |
Behzad Nabavi (Persian: بهزاد نبوی) is an Iranian reformist politician. He served as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Iran and was one of the founders of the reformist party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization. Prior to his career as a democratic reformist, Nabavi was considered an ideologue of the Iranian Islamic left until that force was sidelined by conservatives in the 1990s.
Nabavi was born in Tehran in 1941. His father was a historian, He graduated from Amir Kabir University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in the mid-1960s. He received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1964.
Nabavi started his political activity as a guerrilla fighter against the Pahlavi government and served a prison term as a result. He has personally confirmed that when he was arrested in 1972, he had tried suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, which "fortunately or unfortunately" did not work.
During the Islamic Revolution he was among the founders of the Islamic Revolution Committees (known as komite or komiteh in Iran) which served as a security force mainly working against armed opposition parties and militia, the early years of the Islamic Republic. Nabavi was also a founder of the intelligence office under the Presidency, which later became the ministry of intelligence.
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