- Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami, born on September 29, 1943, in Ardakan city of Yazd province, is an Iranian intellectual, philosopher and political figure. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 2, 2005, and was succeeded by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Khatami was elected president on May 23, 1997, and was re-elected on June 8, 2001, for a second term. Khatami won largely due to the female and youth vote, …
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Hashemi Bahramani born on August 25, 1934, is an influential Iranian politician, and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. He served as President of Iran from 1989 to 1997, losing on the second ballot to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2005 election on his attempt for a third term in office.
- Mohammed Mosaddeq
Dr. Mohammed Mosaddeq ("Moḥammad Moṣaddeq", also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh served as the Prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. He was democratically elected to the parliament, and as leader of the nationalists was twice appointed as prime minister by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament. Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran.
- Mohammad-Reza Khatami
Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami (also known as Reza Khatami, born 1959 in Ardakan, Iran) is an Iranian politician. He was the first Secretary-General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the largest Iranian reformist party. He is now a member of the central council of the party. He is also the younger brother of the fifth Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, and the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament.
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani
Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and mathematician. He is currently the Director of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in Tehran. Previously, he has been a Majlis representative and the director of Majlis Research Center, and a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. While not wearing the Islamic clerics uniform anymore, Larijani, raised in a religious family, …
- Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan (September, 1907? - January 20, 1995) (also spelled Mahdi Bazargan) was head of Iran's interim government, virtually Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was one of the architects of the Iranian revolution. Bazargan was educated in thermodynamics and engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris.
- Mehdi Karroubi
Hojjat ol-Eslam Mehdi Karroubi is an Iranian politician and cleric, the resigned chairman and founding member of the Association of Combatant Clerics party. He was the Speaker of the Iranian parliament from 2000 to 2004, and from 1989 to 1992, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 presidential election. Karroubi was also a candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections in Tehran, but after he ranked thirty-first in the first round, …
- Mostafa Moeen
Mostafa Moeen, M.D. (مصطفی معین; born April 1, 1951), also spelled Moin, is an Iranian politician and professor of Pediatrics, and an Advisor to the former President Mohammad Khatami. He was a presidential candidate for the 2005 Iranian presidential election. His campaign enjoyed the support of some reformist parties and organizations, headed by the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF).
- Mohsen Mirdamadi
Mohsen Mirdamadi is the secretary general of Islamic Iran Participation Front since September of 2006. Although he is the secretary general of the largest reformist party in Iran, in December 2006, he harshly criticized the university students who raided and protested Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech in Amirkabir University. (see: December 2006 Student protest)
- Ata'Ollah Mohajerani
Ata'ollah Mohajerani, born 1954 in Arak, Iran, is an Iranian historian, politician, journalist, and author. Mohajerani was Mohammad Khatami's first Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran. He survived an impeachment by the 5th Majlis which was dominated by the conservatives but eventually resigned due to heavy criticisms by the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, because of his "liberal" policies.
- Ahmad Tavakkoli
Ahmad Tavakkoli is a conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament, and the Director of Strategic Majlis Research Center. He was a possible candidate for the role of Speaker of the Parliament, but he refused to run for the post. Before, he had been the Iranian Minister of Labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, …
- Abdollah Noori
Abdollah Noori is an Iranian reformist politician and cleric.
- Elaheh Koulaei
Elaheh Koulaei is an Iranian (persian) political scientist, reformist intellectual. Dr Koulaei is professor of political science at Tehran University and a member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front. She was a member of the sixth parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr. Koulaei has a daughter called Sara. Elaheh Koulaei was head of the Irano-Libya Parliamentarian Friendship Group in Iran. she was also a member of the Iran-Russia Parliamentarian Friendship Group.
- Ali Shakouri-Rad
Ali Shakouri-Rad is an Iranian reformist politician and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front's Central Council. He was the campaign manager of Mostafa Moin for the Iranian presidential election of 2005. Shakouri-Rad was a Majlis representative from 2000 to 2004, but was forbidden by the Guardian Council to run again in the Iranian Majlis election of 2004.
- Faezeh Hashemi
Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian politician and the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, currently studying in London for her PhD. She has been a Majlis representative from Tehran in the fifth Majlis (Iran), from 1996 to 2000.
- Kazem Jalali
Kazem Jalali is a member of Majles (as of 2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Majead Ansari
Majead Ansari, also spelled Majid Ansari is an Iranian politician and cleric. He was the Iranian Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from October 12, 2004 to August 29, 2005, appointed by President Mohammad Khatami. He replaced the resigning Mohammad Ali Abtahi and was replaced by Ahmad Mousavi (as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad).
- Sadegh Khalkhali
Ayatollah Sadeq Ahmadi Givi aka Sadegh Khalkhali 1927- November 26, 2003) was a hardline Shia cleric of the Islamic Republic of Iran who became known for passing death sentences, and was referred to as Iran's "hanging judge".
- Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
Mohammad Taqī Bahār (1886 - 1951), famously known as Malek o-Šo`arā', is considered as the greatest Twentieth Century Iranian (Persian) poet and scholar, who was also a politician, journalist, professor of literature and historian. Although he was a 20th century poet, his poems were fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic. Bahār is considered by many scholars as the greatest Iranian poet in the past 200 years.
- Mohammad Va'Ez Abaee-Khorasani
Ayatollah Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani was an Iranian cleric and reformist politician. He was a representative of Mashhad in the Majlis of Iran from 2000 to 2004. Born in Mashhad in a religious family, he studied jihad sciences in Mashhad and then moved to Qom to continue his studies there. Because of his religious-political speeches, he was arrested by the Pahlavi government twice, the first time in 1972 when he was sentenced to a short jail time.
- Maurice Motamed
Maurice Motamed was elected in 2000 and again in 2004 as a member of the Iranian Parliament, representing the Jewish community which has by Iran's constitution retained a reserved seat since the Persian Constitution of 1906.
- Asghar Parsa
Asghar Parsa (born 1919, in Khoy - died February 2007 in Tehran) was a member of Iran's National Front. After graduating from Tehran University's School of Law, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was elected to Majlis from Khoy in 1951. He sided with Dr. Mossadeq and was arrested after the coup of 19 August 1953. In 1960 he was the spokesperson of the National Front, before being imprisoned again in 1962.
- Hassan Modarres
Seyyed Hassan Modarres, was an Persian/Iranian politician and Islamic cleric. He was among the founding members, along with Abdolhossein Teymourtash of the Reformist Party ("hezb-e eslaah-talab") of the time, which was formed during the fourth national Majlis of Iran. The sources disagree on his birthplace. Some mention that he was born in Shahreza, while others mention that he was born in a village named "Sarābe-Kachou" (سرابهکچو) near Ardestan, …
- Alireza Noori
Alireza Noori (Persian: علیرضا نوری; born in Isfahan) was a member of the 6th Iranian parliament and a supporter of President Mohammad Khatami's reform programs. He was the brother of Abdollah Noori. Dr. Alireza Noori was educated in medicine and was a practicing physician before entering politics. Noori was killed in a car accident in northern Iran during his term in the parliament.
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou
Fatemeh Haghighatjou, also spelled "Haghighatjoo" was a reformist member of the Iranian Parliament. After a losing struggle for reform in the parliament, her resignation was accepted as the first by several members on February 23, 2004. In 2005 Haghighatjoo was a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Relations. She is currently a fellow at Harvard University's "Women and Public Policy Program".
- Mohammad-Ali Foroughi
Mohammad Ali Foroughi Zoka-ol-Molk was a politician and Prime Minister of Iran. He was born to a family from Isfahan and studied at the élite school of "Dar ol-Fonoon" (دارالفنون - House of Sciences) in Tehran. In 1907 he became director of "Iran's School of Political Science". In 1909 Foroughi entered politics as a member of Majlis (Parliament), representing Tehran. He subsequenty became speaker of the house and later minister in several cabinets.
- Heidar Arfaa
Heidar-Ali Arfaa was Conseiller d'État to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. His role as high counselor was discharged concurrently with a cabinet-level position as "Minister of Agriculture", and as the elected "Député-Majlis" from Fars Province (Parliamentary Seatholder). Senator Arfaa is most notable for authoring legislation of the White Revolution concerning Land Reform, Privatization of Government Enterprises, Women's Suffrage, …
- Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri
Hodjatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri was the speaker of the Majles of Iran. Before that, he was the interior minister of the Islamic Republic. He ran to become the president of Iran for the Iranian presidential election in 1997.
- Ali Movahedi-Kermani
Hojatoleslam/Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani is representative of Ali Khamenei in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts. He was formerly one of the deputy speakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly
- Hossein Ala'
- Mohsen Safaei Farahani
Mohsen Safaei Farahani is an Iranian politician. He was a former Majlis representative from Tehran from 1999 to 2003. He was also the President of the Iranian Football Federation from 1998 to 2002. In November 2006 the federation was suspended by FIFA, due to government interference in football matters. In less than a month the ban was lifed and a new Transitory Board was composed of Farahani as chairman, Kiomars Hashemi as deputy chairman and Mohammad Hassan Ansarifar, …
- Hossein Marashi
Seyyed Hossein Marashi was the Iranian Vice President for Cultural Heritage and Tourism. Prior to that, Marashi represented Kerman in the Iranian parliament. Marashi is cousin of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's wife and a vice secretary general of the Executives of Construction Party. You can find his formal website at: www.marashi.ir in Persian. As the head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of Iran, Marashi increased the budget of the organization.
- Hassan Arsanjani
Dr. Sayyid Hassan Arsanjani (1922-1969) was a radical reformer, and as the minister of agriculture in the cabinet of Dr. Ali Amini introduced the program of land reform in Iran. Later on the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi forced him to resign and credited himself for introducing the land reform through his White Revolution.. He was a law graduate who held several positions including publisher of the Darya newspaper, Member of Parliament during the Majlis's fifteenth assembly, …
- Abolqasem Najm
Abolqasem Najm (Najm ol-Molk), "Abolqāsem Najm" (1892 – October 19, 1981) was a minister of Iran. His father was Mirza Mahmoud Shirazi, a merchant. His mother was the daughter of Iran's first modern physicist and astronomern, Mirza Abdulqaffar Nadjm ol-Molk. He received his basic education from his grandfather and later inhereited his grandfather's title of 'Nadjm ol-Molk' (star of the country) after Mirza Abdulqaffar's retirement.
- Heidar-Ali Arfa
Heidar-Ali Arfa was Conseiller d'État to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. His role as high counselor was discharged concurrently with a cabinet-level position as "Minister of Agriculture", and as the elected "Député-Majlis" from Fars Province (Parliamentary Seatholder). Senator Arfa is most notable for authoring legislation of the White Revolution concerning Land Reform, Privatization of Government Enterprises, Women's Suffrage, …
- Kamal Daneshyar
Kamal Daneshyar is a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Daneshyar has expressed support for private U.S. and European companies assist Iran in the development of power plants for peaceful use of nuclear energy.
- Ali-Akbar Akbar Davar
Ali-Akbar Dāvar (1888-1937) was the founder of the modern judicial system of Iran. Born in 1888, he began his career in the judiciary in Iran, after having completed his studies at the élite school of "Dar ol-Fonoon" (House of Sciences) in Tehran. He then went on to obtain his law degree in Switzerland. He returned to Iran in 1921 and founded the "Radical party of Iran" ("Hizb-e Radical").
- Mohammad Khiabani
Sheykh Mohammad Tabrizi, or Khiabani (1880 - 1920), was an Iranian Azeri cleric, political leader, and representative to the parliament. He was born in Tabriz to "Haji AbdolHameed" from Khameneh, a merchant. He became active during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and was a prominent dissident against foreign colonialism, which subsequently led to his sening into exile by the Ottomans in 1918.
- Hussein Sheikholeslam
Hussein Sheikholeslam is a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was also the Iranian ambassador to Syria. Sheikholeslam is one of the "students" (militants) who held Americans hostage during the Iran hostage crisis
- Keikhosrow Shahrokh
Keikhosrow Shahrokh (b. 1864 in Kerman, Iran - d. 1929) was the mastermind and designer of the mausoleum for Persian poet Ferdowsi at his burial site in the city of Tus. He was also an active member of the Iranian parliament. He is best known for his role in the transition of the official calendar from the Islamic calendar of Hejri Ghamarei to the Persian calendar, also known as "Hejri shamsi".