Mohammad Reza Aref

Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician.[3] He is the Vice President of Iran since 2024, and previously from 2001 until 2005.

Mohammad Reza Aref
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Aref in 2016
2nd and 8th First Vice President of Iran
Assumed office
28 July 2024
PresidentMasoud Pezeshkian
Preceded byMohammad Mokhber
In office
26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byHassan Habibi
Succeeded byParviz Davoodi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority1,608,926 (49.55%)
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Assumed office
16 March 2002
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting)
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran
In office
26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded byAli Saeedlou
Vice President of Iran
Head of Management and Planning Organization
In office
2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad-Ali Najafi
Succeeded byMohammad Sattarifar
Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
In office
20 August 1997 – 17 June 2000
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMohammad Gharazi
Succeeded byNasrollah Jahangard (acting)
Personal details
Born (1951-12-19) 19 December 1951 (age 72)
Yazd, Imperial State of Iran
Political partyOmid Iranian Foundation[1]
Other political
affiliations
Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)[2]
Spouse(s)Hamideh Moravvej Farshi
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
Stanford University
OccupationAcademic
Signature
WebsiteOfficial persian website
Official academic website

Mohammad Reza Aref Media

References

  1. "A look at Iranian newspaper front pages". Iran Front Page. 26 October 2014. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. Buchta, Wilfried (2000), Who rules Iran?: the structure of power in the Islamic Republic, Washington DC: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, p. 180, ISBN 0-944029-39-6
  3. "Iranian Reformists and February Parliamentary Elections", Iranian Diplomacy, 13 November 2015, archived from the original on 7 August 2017, retrieved 24 April 2017