Mohammad Hazratpour

Mohammad Hazratpour
Mayor of Urmia[1]
In office
June 2012 – January 2019
DeputyGholamreza Adaldoost
Preceded byAlireza Esmatparast
Succeeded byGholamreza Adaldoost
Personal details
Born1982 (age 41–42)
Urmia, Iran
Political partyAlliance of Builders of Islamic Iran[2]
ProfessionPolitician

Mohammad Hazratpour (Persian: محمد حضرت‌ پور, born 1982 in Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran) is an Iranian politician and the forty-first mayor of Urmia.[3][4] He was elected by the city council of Urmia in June 2012.[5]

He graduated with an Associate Degree in Electronics, then received a Master's Degree in Political Science.[6]

Hazratpour had external relations with the mayors of Erzurum, Turkey and consul general of Turkey in Urmia.[7][8] He also expanded Shahrdari Urmia F.C.a and Shahrdari Urmia VC.[9] His nephew, Rohollah Hazratpour, is the member of parliament from Urmia.

Hazratpour was arrested in January 2019, and officially resigned from the position of mayor on January 31 of that year. Subsequently, the city council elected his deputy mayor, Gholamreza Adaldoost, to the position of mayor.[10] He was released on bail, but was arrested again for falsification of bail in April 2021.[11]

In May 2021, the Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported that Hazratpour, along with six other prisoners in the Central Prison in Urmia, went on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the prison.[12]

  1. ^ "شهردار ارومیه". Municipality of Urmia. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. ^ "بی تعارف با حضرت پور". Zolfagar news. 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. ^ "محمد حضرت پور چگونه " شهردار اروميه " شد ؟". Javan Press. 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  4. ^ "ابقای شهردار ارومیه/ پرويز جليلي رئيس شوراي اسلامي شهر اروميه شد". Mehr News Agency. 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ^ "محمد حضرت پور جایگزین شایسته مهدی باکری". Khabar Online. June 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  6. ^ "در مورد محمد حضرت پور در ویکی تابناک بیشتر بخوانید". www.tabnak.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  7. ^ "ارومیه و ارزروم ترکیه خواهر خوانده شدند". Mehr News Agency. April 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  8. ^ "دیدار سرکنسول ترکیه با شهردار ارومیه". Municipality of Urmia. 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  9. ^ "تمرینات والیبال شهرداری ارومیه". Municipality of Urmia. 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  10. ^ "سرپرست جدید شهرداری ارومیه انتخاب شد". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2023-09-15.
  11. ^ Tabnak (2021-04-28). "شهردار سابق ارومیه دوباره بازداشت شد". fa (in Persian). Retrieved September 15, 2023.
  12. ^ Association, Kurdistan Human Rights (2021-05-27). "The hunger strike of seven prisoners in the I.R prison in Urmia". Kurdistan Human Rights Association (KMMK) e.V. Retrieved 2023-09-15.