Mohammad Tavasoli

Mohammad Tavasoli
Tavasoli in 2012
Mayor of Tehran
In office
26 February 1979 – 5 January 1981
Preceded byJavad Shahrestani
Succeeded byReza Zavare'i (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Mohammad Tavasoli-Hojjati[1]

(1938-05-15) 15 May 1938 (age 86)
Tehran, Iran[2]
Political partyFreedom Movement of Iran
SpouseMina Yazdi[3]
RelativesEbrahim Yazdi (brother-in-law)[3]
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
ProfessionEngineer[2]

Mohammad Tavasoli (Persian: محمد توسلی; born 15 May 1938) is an Iranian democracy activist and politician. He is the Secretary-General and also the director of the political office of the Freedom Movement party.[4]

  1. ^ Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook. Syracuse University Press. pp. 771–72. ISBN 9780815654322.
  2. ^ a b Houchang E. Chehabi (1990). Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. p. 87. ISBN 1850431981.
  3. ^ a b "Iran Freedom Movement Names New Head", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 18 September 2017, retrieved 21 October 2017
  4. ^ Daniel Nasaw and Matthew Weaver (18 June 2009). "Iran protests: live". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2011.