Mohammad Reza Aref | |
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محمدرضا عارف | |
_(cropped)_(cropped).jpg) Aref in 2024 | |
| 2nd and 8th First Vice President of Iran | |
| Assumed office 28 July 2024 | |
| President | Masoud Pezeshkian |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Mokhber |
| In office 26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Hassan Habibi |
| Succeeded by | Parviz Davoodi |
| Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
| In office 28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020 | |
| Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
| Majority | 1,608,926 (49.55%) |
| Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
| Assumed office 16 March 2002 | |
| Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
| Chairman | Akbar 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 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Succeeded by | Ali Saeedlou |
| Vice President of Iran Head of Management and Planning Organization | |
| In office 2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad-Ali Najafi |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Sattarifar |
| Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone | |
| In office 20 August 1997 – 17 June 2000 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Gharazi |
| Succeeded by | Nasrollah Jahangard (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 December 1951 Yazd, Imperial State of Iran |
| Political party | Omid Iranian Foundation[1] |
| Other political affiliations | Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)[2] |
| Spouse | Hamideh Moravvej Farshi |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran Stanford University |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Signature |  |
| Website | ee |
Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is the eighth and current first vice president of Iran since 2024, under President Masoud Pezeshkian.[3][4] He is also currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2002.
He was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. Aref has also been heading the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking since its establishment in 2015.[5]
He was also the second first vice president from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[6] He previously served as Minister Information and Communications Technology and head of Management and Planning Organization in Khatami's first cabinet. He was a member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution until 2021. He is also an electrical engineer and a professor at University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology. He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but withdrew his candidacy in order to give the reformist camp a better chance to win.[7][8]
- ^ "A look at Iranian newspaper front pages". Iran Front Page. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Pezeshkian names Aref as first vice president". Tehran Times. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Mohammad Reza Aref appointed as 1st VP". president.ir. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Iranian Reformists and February Parliamentary Elections", Iranian Diplomacy, 13 November 2015, retrieved 24 April 2017
- ^ Political posts of Mohammad-Reza Aref Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Aref withdrew from the election".
- ^ "Iran's Mohammad Reza Aref quits presidential race". BBC News. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2024.