Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf

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Sardar Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
محمدباقر قالیباف
Ghalibaf in 2024
6th Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 May 2020
Deputy	First Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Ali Nikzad Abdolreza Mesri Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee Second Ali Nikzad Abdolreza Mesri Mojtaba Zonnour Ali Nikzad
Preceded by	Ali Larijani
Member of the Parliament of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 May 2024
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis
Majority	447,905 (28.53%)
In office 27 May 2020 – 26 May 2024
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis
Majority	1,265,287 (68.69%)
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
In office 14 August 2017 – 28 May 2020
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
Succeeded by	Ali Larijani
43rd Mayor of Tehran
In office 14 September 2005[1] – 27 August 2017
Deputy	Issa Sharifi[2]
Preceded by	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Head of the Central Headquarters for Combating Goods and Currency Smuggling
In office 8 June 2004 – 1 September 2005
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Mohammad Reza Naqdi
Personal details
Born	(1961-08-23) 23 August 1961 (age 63) Torqabeh, Iran[3]
Political party	Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran (Spiritual leader)[4]
Other political affiliations	Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces (2020) Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces (2017)
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Spouse	Zahra-Sadat Moshir-Estekhareh ​ ​ (m. 1982)​
Children	Elias, Eshaq, Maryam[5]
Alma mater	University of Tehran Tarbiat Modares University
Awards	Order of Fath (2nd grade) Order of Fath (3rd grade)
Religion	Shia Islam
Signature
Website	Official website
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Revolutionary Guards
Years of service	1981–2000
Rank	Brigadier general
Commands	25th Karbala Division Khatam-al Anbiya HQ IRGC Air Force
Battles/wars	1979 Kurdish Rebellion Iran–Iraq War
Police career
Service	Law Enforcement Force
Service years	2000–2005
Rank	Brigadier general

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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (Persian: محمدباقر قالیباف, born 23 August 1961) is an Iranian conservative politician, former military officer, and current Speaker of the Parliament of Iran since 2020. He held office as the Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. Ghalibaf was formerly Iran's Chief of police from 2000 to 2005 and commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Air Force from 1997 to 2000.

He holds a Ph.D. in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University. He is also a pilot, certified to fly certain Airbus aircraft. He began his military career during the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. He became chief commander of the Imam Reza Brigade in 1982 and was chief commander of Nasr Division from 1983 to 1984. After the end of the war, he became Managing-Director of Khatam al-Anbia, an engineering firm controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was appointed as commander of the IRGC Air Force in 1996 by Ali Khamenei. Four years later, he became chief of the Iranian Police Forces after the previous commander was dismissed following the 1999 student protests. He was also appointed as Representative of President Mohammad Khatami during a campaign to combat smuggling in 2002. In September 2005, he was elected as Tehran's mayor by the City Council of Tehran. He is also a professor at the University of Tehran.^[6]

Ghalibaf is often regarded a perennial candidate in the presidential elections.^[7] He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but lost to Hassan Rouhani, in second place with 6,077,292 of the votes. He was also a candidate in the 2005 presidential election. He announced his run for a third time in the 2017 election. However, he withdrew on 15 May 2017 in favor of Ebrahim Raisi's candidacy. He was a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

In the 2020 Iranian legislative election, the Principlists regained the majority in the legislature,^[8] and Ghalibaf was elected as the new Speaker of Iran Parliament.^[9]