Tahmasb Mazaheri

Tahmasb Mazaheri (Persian طهماسب مظاهری; * 1953 ) is an Iranian politician and economist and was from September 2007 to September 2008 the Governor of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Career

Tahmasb Mazaheri studied at Tehran University, and graduated with a master's degree in civil engineering from.

From 1991 to 1994 he was Secretary General of the Iranian central bank. After the presidential elections of 2001 he was employed in Mohammad Khatami 's second term as economics and finance ministers, however, were sold before the end of the term of office in April 2004 by the President again. After the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad he held from 2005 to 2006, the Office of Secretary of State in the Ministry. Successor as minister Safdar Hosseini. He then became Chairman of the Iranian Export Development Bank. Under his tenure in particular, exports to Asia.

After the deposition of his predecessor Ebrahim Sheibani, Office of the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran on August 26, 2007 Mazaheri was appointed on 5 September 2007 as a new central bank president. Mazaheri was considered more open to reform ideas Ahmadinejad in the banking sector, such as the strengthening of the interest ban. On the day of his appointment, he called for the enforcement of Islamic interest ban. He caused a sensation by the message that the process was almost completed, handle any more export transactions in U.S. dollars and would now begun to reallocate the foreign exchange reserves of Iran also from the U.S. dollar to other currencies.

In September 2008, Mazaheri was dismissed by Ahmadinejad of his office as the central bank governor, and was succeeded by Mahmoud Bahmani.

On 2 February 2013, the picture reported on Sunday that it is the Iranians who had entered from Turkey, where the duty on 21 January on a check of the Banco de Venezuela Bolivares over 300 million ( 54 million euros ) Düsseldorf airport in the luggage found Mazaheri should have acted. After a month of testing, the customs administration has returned the check again. The money was earmarked for the construction of 10,000 apartments, which were created with the help of Iran in Venezuela. According to the duty, no evidence for a criminal investigation were found.