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Mohammad-Reza Aref

Mohammad Reza Aref
Mohammad Reza Aref 2016 cropped.jpg
Aref in 2016
Member of the Parliament of Iran
Assumed office
28 May 2016
Constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority 1,608,926 (49.55%)
First Vice President of Iran
In office
11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Hassan Habibi
Succeeded by Parviz Davoodi
Vice President of Iran
Head of Management and Planning Organization
In office
2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Succeeded by Mohammad Sattarifar
Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
In office
19 August 1997 – 1 December 2000
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Mohammad Gharazi
Succeeded by Nasrollah Jahangard (acting)
Personal details
Born (1951-12-19) 19 December 1951 (age 65)
Yazd, Iran
Political party Omid Iranian Foundation
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)
Spouse(s) Hamideh Moravvej Farshi
Children 3
Alma mater University of Tehran
Stanford University
Occupation Academic
Signature
Website Official persian website
Official academic website

Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف‎‎, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is currently parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. Aref has also been heading the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking since its establishment in 2015.

He was First Vice President from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami. He previously served as Minister Information and Communications Technology and head of Management and Planning Organization in Khatami's first cabinet. He is currently a member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution and Expediency Discernment Council. He is also an electrical engineer and a professor at University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology. He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but withdrew his candidacy in order to give the reformist camp a better chance to win.

Aref was born on 19 December 1951 in Yazd. His father, Mirza Ahmad Aref, was a famous businessman.


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