Ebrahim Asgharzadeh
| Ebrahim Asgharzadeh | |
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| Member of City Council of Tehran | |
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In office 29 April 1999 – 15 January 2003 |
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| Member of the Parliament | |
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In office 28 May 1988 – 28 May 1992 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
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28 December 1955 Khash, Iran |
| Political party | Islamic Iran Solidarity Party |
| Alma mater | Tehran Polytechnic |
| Religion | Islam |
Ebrahim Asgharzadeh (Persian: ابراهیم اصغرزاده) is an Iranian political activist and politician. He served as a member of the 3rd Majlis (Iran's legislature) from 1988–1992 and as a member of the first City Council of Tehran from 1999–2003. His career in politics started as one the leaders of the group Muslim student followers of the Imam's line that took over the American embassy and held American embassy staff hostage for 444 days.
Asgharzadeh was a 24-year-old electrical engineering student at a Sharif University of Technology in Tehran at the time of the Islamic revolution. He was the leader of the newly formed Office for Strengthening Unity, a group founded by Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti to counter the influence among university students of the anti-theocratic Mojahedin-e Khalq.
Asgharzadeh became well known as a leader of the embassy takeover. From 1982 to 1988, Asgharzadeh worked closely with future president Muhammad Khatami, who was then head of the official Kayhan newspaper and later became the minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Asgharzadeh also served as a military commander in the war with Iraq for six months.
After 1988 Asgharzadeh began calling for more openness and "voicing his opposition to the clerics' policies." In 1988 Asgharzadeh was elected to Parliament representing a district in Tehran. By 1992 his "outspokenness" provoked the conservative Guardian Council into disqualifying him for running for most elected posts and sentencing him to a month in solitary confinement. After being released from prison he abandoned his career as an engineer and returned to school, studying political science at Tehran University, where, as of 2002, he was working on a doctorate. In 1996 he helped set up the Iranian reform movement that led to the election of Khatami a year later, and ran for municipal council (the only post where elections are not screened by the Guardian Council).
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