Morteza Alviri
| Morteza Alviri | |
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| 51st Mayor of Tehran | |
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In office 1 September 1998 – 1 September 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Gholamhossein Karbaschi |
| Succeeded by | Hassan Malekmadani |
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| Born |
23 November 1948 Damavand, Iran |
| Political party | Executives of Construction Party |
| Alma mater | Sharif University |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
Morteza Alviri (Persian: مرتضی الویری, born 23 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as Mayor of Tehran from 1999 to 2001.
He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and has a Master's in Management from the State Management Training Center.
During the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi he was imprisoned for activities with the Fallah organisation.
After the Iranian Revolution he served on the central council of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. He was affiliated with the leftist Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization, and was elected an MP in the Majlis of Iran in 1980 and 1988. He was a close associate of then-speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Alviri was a supporter of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, who was dismissed as Ayatollah Khomeini's deputy in 1988, and as a result Alviri was prevented from running in the 1992 Majlis elections. Since then he moved from leftist to economically liberal views, and has served in various governmental positions including the Supreme National Security Council's economic committee, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the Ministry of Mines and Metals and was secretary of the Supreme Council for Free Trade Zones during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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