Morteza Haji

Morteza Haji
Minister of Education
In office
22 August 2001 – 24 August 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byHossein Mozaffar
Succeeded byMahmoud Farshidi
Minister of Cooperatives
In office
20 August 1997 – 22 August 2001
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byGholamreza Shafeei
Succeeded byAli Soufi
Governor of Mazandaran Province
In office
20 April 1986 – 16 December 1989
PresidentAli Khamenei
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byAli-Akbar Tahayi
Succeeded byEsmaeil Mofidi
In office
6 October 1980 – 19 June 1982
PresidentAbolhassan Banisadr
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
Ali Khamenei
Prime MinisterMohammad-Ali Rajai
Mohammad-Javad Bahonar
Mohammadreza Mahdavi Kani
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byAbdolali Moshaf
Succeeded byMohammad Majdara
Personal details
NationalityIranian
Political partyIslamic Iran Participation Front[1]
Other political
affiliations		Islamic Nations Party
ProfessionMath teacher[1]

Morteza Haji (Persian: مرتضی حاجی) is an Iranian reformist politician. He held office as a governor and minister during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.[1]

He was head of Mohammad Khatami's presidential campaign in 1997[2] and a director of the Hassan Rouhani 2017 presidential campaign.[3]

  1. ^ a b c 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, pp. 40, 180, ISBN 0-944029-39-6
  2. ^ Iran Report, vol. 1, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 23 November 1998, retrieved 25 March 2017
  3. ^ Rouhani appoints campaign director, protests debate timing, Tehran Times, 26 April 2017, retrieved 26 April 2017