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Hasan Habibi

Hassan Habibi
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Habibi in 2006
First Vice President of Iran
In office
1 September 1989 – 11 September 2001
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Mohammad-Reza Aref
Minister of Justice
In office
9 March 1985 – 1 September 1989
President Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by Mohammad Asghari
Succeeded by Esmail Shooshtari
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
Constituency Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat
Majority 1,552,478 (72.7%)
Minister of Culture and Higher Education
In office
1 October 1979 – 6 November 1979
Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan
Preceded by Ali Shariatmadari
Succeeded by Hassan Arefi
Personal details
Born Hassan Ebrahim Habibi
(1937-01-29)29 January 1937
Tehran, Iran
Died 31 January 2013(2013-01-31) (aged 76)
Tehran, Iran
Political party
Spouse(s) Shafigheh Rahideh
Awards Orden de la Independencia IRI.png Excellent Order of Independence
Ribbon of Knowledge.png Order of Knowledge (1st class)

Hassan Ebrahim Habibi (29 January 1937 – 31 January 2013) was an Iranian politician, lawyer, scholar and the first vice president from 1989 until 2001 under Presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami. He was also a member of the High Council of Cultural Revolution and head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature from 2004 until his death in 2013.

Habibi was born on 29 January 1937. He studied sociology in France. He held a PhD in law and sociology. When he was a university student he visited Khomeini while the latter was in exile.

Habibi was tasked by Ayatollah Khomenei to draft the prospective constitution of Iran when the latter was in exile in Paris. His version was heavily modified due to criticisms and the final text was approved by the election in November 1979.

Following the Iranian revolution, Habibi was named public spokesman for the revolutionary council. He was among the main architects of the first draft of Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was later passed for more discussion to an elected Assembly of Experts for Constitution. The assembly made significant changes in the original draft, e.g. by introducing the new position of "leader of the Islamic Republic" based on Khomeini's concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists, which gave almost unlimited power to the clergy. The modified version was approved in a popular referendum in 1979. In the 1980 presidential election, Habibi run for office, but received only ten percent of the vote against Banisadr's seventy percent. Habibi was backed by Mohammad Beheshti in the election process. In the same year he won a parliamentary seat, being a representative of the Islamic Republican Party.


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