Mohammad Reza Aref
| Mohammad Reza Aref | |
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Aref in 2016
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| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
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Assumed office 28 May 2016 |
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| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 1,608,926 (49.55%) |
| First Vice President of Iran | |
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In office 11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005 |
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| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Hassan Habibi |
| Succeeded by | Parviz Davoodi |
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Vice President of Iran Head of Management and Planning Organization |
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In office 2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001 |
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| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Najafi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Sattarifar |
| Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone | |
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In office 19 August 1997 – 1 December 2000 |
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| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Gharazi |
| Succeeded by | Nasrollah Jahangard (acting) |
| Personal details | |
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19 December 1951 Yazd, Iran |
| Political party | Omid Iranian Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Hamideh Moravvej Farshi |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
University of Tehran Stanford University |
| Occupation | Academic |
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| Website |
Official persian website Official academic website |
Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and politician who is currently parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. 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.
He received a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tehran, and a master's degree and a PhD in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively. His PhD thesis was on the information theory of networks, supervised by Thomas M. Cover. He introduced and analyzed deterministic relay networks which is later termed as Aref Networks. During his education at Tehran University, he led many protests and was arrested by SAVAK prior to the Iranian Revolution.
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