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Mostafa Tajzadeh

Mostafa Tajzadeh
Minister of Interior
Acting
In office
21 June 1998 – 22 July 1998
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Abdollah Nouri
Succeeded by Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
Advisor to the President of Iran
In office
21 November 2004 – 3 August 2005
President Mohammad Khatami
Political Deputy of Minister of Interior
Head of Country's Election Headquarters
In office
29 August 1997 – 2 May 2001
President Mohammad Khatami
Minister Abdollah Nouri
Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari
Succeeded by Morteza Moballegh
Deputy Minister of Culture for International Affairs
In office
1984–1988
President Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Minister Mohammad Khatami
Personal details
Born Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh
(1956-11-22) November 22, 1956 (age 60)
Tehran, Iran
Nationality Iranian
Political party Islamic Iran Participation Front (since 1998)
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization (since 1991)
Other political
affiliations
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization (1979–1986)
Spouse(s) Fakhri Mohtashamipour
Children 2
Alma mater University of Tehran
College of the Siskiyous
Religion Shia Islam

Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh (Persian: سید مصطفی تاج‌زاده‎‎) is an Iranian reformist politician and a senior member of Islamic Iran Participation Front, as well as Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization.

He is imprisoned at Evin Prison since 2009.

Tajzadeh was briefly Acting Minister of Interior under administration of President Mohammad Khatami after impeachment of Abdollah Nouri, advisor to President Mohammad Khatami in his last two years of administration, a deputy at Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Culture.

He is also a member of Association of Iranian Journalists.

In 1975, Tajzadeh went to the United States to study and became a member of Muslim Students Association, active against Shah of Iran. With the start of the Iranian Revolution in 1978, he left university and returned to Iran.

Tajzadeh served as the Political deput of the Ministry of Interior of Iran in the government of Mohammad Khatami, and under the Minister Abdollah Noori, since 1997, after being introduced to Noori by Gholamhossein Karbaschi and Mohammad Atrianfar. The first Iranian elections for the City and Village Councils of Iran happened under Tajzadeh. Later, he became an Adviser to the President of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, from November 21, 2004 until the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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