Mohammad Reza Rahimi

Mohammad Reza Rahimi ( born January 11, 1949 in Qorveh ) is an Iranian politician and since 2009 the First Vice President of Iran.

Life

Rahimi was 1949 (1327 according to the Islamic calendar ) in the Iranian Qorveh ( Kordestān ) born. He has been married since 1970 and has two children. He earned a degree at the Azad University in Tehran. 1980 Rahimi was elected as a member of the Islamic Republican Party in the Iranian parliament, where he belonged, among others, the Committee on Foreign Policy. In August 1993 he was appointed by then-President Ali Rafsanjani governor of the province of Kurdistan. Rahimi occupied this office until August 1997, when Mohammad Khatami, who was elected in the presidential election in 1997 to Rafsanjani's successor, appointed new governors.

His dismissal as governor took Rahimi as an opportunity to temporarily opt out of the policy and to work for several years in business. In 2005 he participated in the election campaign of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the choice success led in the presidential elections of 2005. Ahmadinejad made ​​him then to " Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ". In September 2009, Ahmadinejad appointed him as the " First Vice President " of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this office he followed Esfandiar Rahim Maschaie, who was fired after a confrontation between the Supreme Leader Ali Chamene'i and President Ahmadinejad.

• Politicians (Iran)
• Iranian
• Born in 1949
• Man