45 Notable alumni of
Tarbiat Modares University
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Tarbiat Modares University is 901st in the world, 187th in Asia, and 4th in Iran by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Tarbiat Modares University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Asghar Farhadi
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- film screenwriterfilm producerfilm directoractordirector
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Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Iranian cinema as well as world cinema in the 21st century. His films have gained recognition for their focus on the human condition, and portrayals of intimate and challenging stories of internal family conflicts. In 2012, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. That same year, he also received the Legion of Honour from France.
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Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf
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- military personneluniversity teacherchief of policepoliticiancommercial pilot
- Biography
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf 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 Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from 1997 to 2000.
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Saeed Mohammad
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- military officer
- Biography
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Saeed Mohammad is an Iranian politician, Iranian executive director and second brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He was Advisor to the President of Iran from 2021 to 2022 and former commander of its Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters who has a PhD in Civil engineering from Tarbiat Modares University.
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Gholam Ali Rasheed
- Enrolled in Tarbiat Modares University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political geography
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- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Major general Gholam Ali Rashid was an Iranian military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who served as the commander of Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters. He was assassinated by Israeli strikes on Iran on 13 June 2025.
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Jamileh Alamolhoda
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- writerlecturer
- Biography
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Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda, commonly known as Jamileh Alamolhoda (Persian: جمیله علمالهدی), is an Iranian writer and scholar. She is the widow of Ebrahim Raisi, who was the President of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024.
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Mohammad Bahrani
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- puppeteerfilm director
- Biography
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Mohammad Bahrani is an Iranian voice actor, puppeteer, actor, director, presenter, and poet. Best known for his voice acting improvisations as one of the most popular adult puppets in the history of the Iranian television Jenab Khan.
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Masoumeh Ebtekar
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- environmentalistjournalistimmunologistpoliticiantranslator
- Biography
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Masoumeh Ebtekar is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs from 2017 to 2021. Her appointment to the Cabinet of Iran in 1997 marked her as the institution's third female member overall and the first female member since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. She is currently a full-time professor in the Immunology Department of the School of Medical Sciences at Tarbiat Modares University in the city of Tehran.
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Mehran Rajabi
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- actor
- Biography
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Mehran Rajabi is an Iranian actor.
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Mohsen Kadivar
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- philosopherintellectualuniversity teachermullahtheologian
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Mohsen Kadivar is a mujtahid, Islamic theologian, philosopher, writer, leading intellectual reformist, and research professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. A political Iranian dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist), and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran as well as constructional reform in understanding of shari'a and Shi'a theology. Kadivar has served time in prison in Iran for his political activism and beliefs.
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Gholamhossein Karbaschi
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- clericpolitician
- Biography
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Gholamhossein Karbaschi is an Iranian politician and former Shia cleric who was the Mayor of Tehran from 1990 until 1998. He is considered politically reformist and is a close ally of former president Mohammad Khatami. He was arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned on corruption charges in what the New York Times claimed "was widely seen among moderates as a politically motivated attack" by the government's conservatives and hard-liners to thwart President Mohammad Khatami's reformist agenda. He was the General Secretary of Executives of Construction Party until 2021.
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Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli
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- politician
- Biography
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Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli is an Iranian conservative politician who has served as the ambassador of Iran to China in the Government of Masoud Pezeshkian since 21 May 2025. He was also Minister of Interior in Hassan Rouhani's government and the president of the Supreme Audit Court from 2008 to 2013.
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Mehdi Khalaji
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- linguistwritertranslatornovelistblogger
- Biography
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Mehdi Khalaji is an Iranian-American writer, scholar of Islamic studies, political analyst, and a former Shia cleric. He has been researching at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy since 2005, and is now a senior research fellow focusing on the politics of Iran and Shiite groups in the Middle East. He has frequently contributed to media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
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Ata'ollah Mohajerani
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- writertranslatornovelistessayistpolitician
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Ata'ollah Mohajerani is an Iranian journalist, author, and reformist politician. Mohajerani served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami from 1997 until 2000 when he was fired from office for alleged "permissiveness". He is living as a UK citizen.
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Fazel Larijani
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- physicistpolitician
- Biography
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Fazel Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician and academic. He is best known in Iran for his core involvement in the corruption allegations publicly announced by then president in the Majlis.
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Mahmoud Sadeghi
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mahmoud Sadeghi is an Iranian lawyer, jurist, academic and reformist politician who was a member of the Parliament of Iran representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district from May 2016 to May 2020.
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Behrouz Boochani
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- writerjournalistfilm producerpolitical activistpoet
- Biography
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Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in New Zealand. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until its closure in 2017. He remained on the island before being moved to Port Moresby along with the other detainees around September 2019. On 14 November 2019 he arrived in Christchurch on a one-month visa, to speak at a special event organised by WORD Christchurch on 29 November, as well as other speaking events. In December 2019, his one-month visa to New Zealand expired and he remained on an expired visa until being granted refugee status in July 2020, at which time he became a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury.
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Mohammad Fazeli
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- sociologist
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Mohammad Fazeli is an Iranian sociologist and former assistant professor at Shahid Beheshti University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of science. He got fired from university in the "third wave of purging political professors". He is advisor to Iranian Minister of Energy. Fazeli was the research deputy of Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and the general editor of the Network for Public Policy Studies (NPPS).
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Mostafa Kavakebian
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- politician
- Biography
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Mostafa Kavakebian is an Iranian reformist politician who was the representative of Tehran in the Parliament of Iran, from 2016 to 2020. He has formerly represented Semnan and Mehdishahr in the parliament from 2008 until 2012. He registered for president of Iran in the 2024 presidential election but was rejected by the Guardian Council.
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Bahram Tavakoli
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- writerfilm directordesignerscreenwriter
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Bahram Tavakoli is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He won a Crystal Simorgh award for his debut film Barefoot in Heaven (2007). Since then, he has released several films that have met with critical acclaim.
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Mehdi Kouchakzadeh
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- politician
- Biography
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Mehdi Kouchakzadeh, also spelled as Koochakzadeh, is an Iranian hydraulic engineer, academic and principlist politician, who is the current member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly since 2024. He was also a member of Iranian Parliament from 2004 to 2016.
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Gholam-Hossein Elham
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- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Gholam-Hossein Elham is an Iranian conservative and principlist politician who held several posts during the term of the former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
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Hashem Aghajari
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- writertranslatoruniversity teacheressayistjournalist
- Biography
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Seyyed Hashem Aghajari is an Iranian historian, university professor and a critic of the government of the Islamic Republic who was sentenced to death in 2002 for apostasy for a speech he gave on Islam urging Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics. In 2004, after domestic Iranian and international outcry, his sentence was reduced to five years in prison.
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Hossein Simaei Saraf
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Iran - Occupations
- researcherjuristlawyerwriteruniversity teacher
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Hossein Simaee Sarraf is a university professor, lawyer and moderate politician who has been the Minister of Science, Research and Technology since August 2024 in the 14th government.
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Emad Afroogh
- Enrolled in Tarbiat Modares University
- In 1997 graduated with doctorate in sociology
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- sociologisttranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Emad Afroogh was an Iranian sociologist and conservative politician.
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Alireza Ali Ahmadi
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- politician
- Biography
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Alireza Ali Ahmadi is an Iranian politician and the current CEO of the National Iranian Tanker Company. He is the former Minister of Education from 2008 to 2009. Before his appointment as Minister of Education, he was chancellor of Payame Noor University. He was also proposed Minister of Commerce in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first cabinet which he was not confirmed by the Iranian Parliament. He was one of the candidates in 2013 presidential election but was withdrawn on 21 May.
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Fatemeh Ekhtesari
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- poet
- Biography
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Fateme Ekhtesari, also Fatemeh Ekhtesari, is an Iranian poet and writer. Ekhtesari lived in Karaj and she writes in Persian. In 2013, she appeared at the poetry festival in Gothenburg, Göteborgs poesifestival. After she arrived back in Iran she was imprisoned and later released on bail. Her verdict came in 2015 when she was sentenced to 99 lashes and 11.5 years imprisonment for crimes against the Iranian government, for immoral behaviour and blasphemy.
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Masoud Mir Kazemi
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- politician
- Biography
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Masoud Mir Kazemi is an Iranian principlist politician and the former Vice President of Iran and head of Plan and Budget Organization. He was a member of the Parliament of Iran from Tehran district from 2012 until 2016, and also previously served at two ministerial posts in the cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Mansour Gholami
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- politician
- Biography
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Mansour Gholami is an Iranian professor, politician and former Minister of Science, a position he held from 2017 to 2021. He was Chancellor of Bu-Ali Sina University in two terms, first from 1997 until 2004 and the second from 2014 until 2017.
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Sadeq Khalilian
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- politicianeconomist
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Sadeq Khalilian is an Iranian conservative politician who served as the governor of Khuzestan province from 2021 to 2022. He is the former agriculture minister from 2009 to 2013 in the government headed by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
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Akbar Alemi
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- presenterfilm directorcinematographerphotographer
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Akbar Alemi was an Iranian television presenter and documentary film director. He was also a lecturer at Tarbiat Modares University.
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Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi
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- diplomatmathematicianpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi is an Iranian politician and was the former minister of science and technology in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration.
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Elaheh Koulaei
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- politician
- Biography
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Elaheh Koulaei is an Iranian political scientist and reformist politician and intellectual.
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Hatam Ghaderi
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- political scientist
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Hatem Ghaderi is an Iranian researcher and professor of political science. He is a retired member of the faculty at Tarbiat Modares University and also teaches at the Rokhdad Tazeh Institute. Ghaderi is often recognized for his works in the field of political thought and his interviews on contemporary political topics. Many of his works are considered important resources in the fields of political thought and the history of thought in the Persian language.
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Seyamak R. Payek
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- scientist
- Biography
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Siamak Rahpeyk is the jurist member of the Guardian Council and current Dean of Faculty of the University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services located in Tehran, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Private Law from Tarbiat Modarres University. Rahpeyk also teaches the law, his main expertise is civil liability, sub sub-specialty: basic rights and security strategy.
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Maryam Mojtahedzadeh
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- politician
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Maryam Mojtahedzadeh is an Iranian nurse, educator and conservative politician who was formerly Vice President of Iran under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. She is currently head of Organization for Preserving Values and Publications of Women's Participation in Sacred Defence of General Staff of Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Fatemeh Rakeei
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- academicpoetlinguistpolitician
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Fatemeh Rakeei is an Iranian politician, linguist, poet and Alzahra University faculty. Rakei was born in Zanjan, Zanjan Province. She was a member of the 6th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Tehran. Now she is the secretary-general of population Muslim women modernity.
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Hassan Sobhani
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- politician
- Biography
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Hassan Sobahni is a Tehran University Professor of Economics, specifically Islamic Economy, Finance and Monetary Systems.
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Mohammad Ebrahim Amini
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- politician
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Ebrahim Amini is an Iranian reformist politician who is member and vice chairman of City Council of Tehran.
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Zahra Ahmadipour
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- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Zahra Ahmadipour is an Iranian politician and university professor who was the head of Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization from 2016 until 2017. She was formerly Director of administrative divisions of the Ministry of Interior for two times, first from 1997 until 2003 and the second time in 2016. She was also Vice President of the Physical Education Organization from 2003 until 2005.
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Reza Servati
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- stage actor
- Biography
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Reza Servati is an Iranian writer, theater director, theater actor, and choreographer. He holds a bachelor's degree in dramatic literature from Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch and a master's degree in directing from Tarbiat Modares University.
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Ali Asghar Mosleh
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- writerphilosopher
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Ali Asghar Mosleh Fasaei is an Iranian philosopher and professor of philosophy at Allameh Tabataba'i University. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of culture. Mosleh holds the presidency of The Iranian Society of Intercultural Philosophy (ISIPH) and Research Institute for Contemporary Culture at Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He was the Dean of ATU's Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages (PLFL), and Acting-Dean of ATU's Faculty of Theology and Islamic Knowledge (2015-2017). He is associate member of the Iranian Academy of Science. (2023)
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Soleiman Pakseresht
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- sociologistessayist
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Soleiman Pakseresht is an Iranian sociologist and associate professor at Allameh Tabataba'i University whose work focuses on social impact assessment, political sociology and sociology of cyberspace. He previously taught at Bu-Ali Sina University.
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Jamshid Ghanbari Maman
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- diplomatpoliticianmanager
- Biography
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Jamshid Ghanbari Maman is an Iranian politician, former chief executive officer and expert on transportation who acts as an adviser of Civil Commission of Islamic Consultative Assembly of I.R.Iran. He was a member of Islamic Consultative Assembly of I.R.Iran in fourth and fifth parliament, also He has been active as First Deputy chairman (Fourth parliament) and chairman (Fifth parliament) of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Commission of Islamic Consultative Assembly of I.R.Iran.
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Ebrahim Hajiani
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Ebrahim Hajiani is an Iranian sociologist whose work focuses on futures studies, identity, sociology of religion and secularism. He is a former deputy head of the Iranian Center for Strategic Studies and a former head of Iranian Students Polling Agency.
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Gholam Hosein Shiri Aliabad
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Gholam Hosein Shiri Aliabad was an Iranian politician.