Iranian President Masud Cyezeshkian appointed a prominent reformist Mohammad’s Curvear Red Arifa First Vice President.
According to the Decree of the President of Iran, a prominent reformist leader and member of the Council for Strengthening the Procedure Arif was appointed first vice president.
– Who is Mohammad Reza Arif?
Arif in 1951 was born in the Yesd (Iran), received higher education at the University of Tehran and graduated from the University of Stanford in the United States, having received the degree of master and doctor in electrical engineering and communications.
Throughout its political career, Arif occupied important posts in Iran and fought against the Shah regime in the years preceding the 1979 revolution. During this struggle, he was repeatedly arrested. Arif, who began his political career after the revolution, in 1981 served as vice president of the Iranian telecommunications company.
appointed by the Minister of Communications and Information Technologies in 1997 under the leader of the reformers former President Mohammade Hatam, Arif was appointed first vice president in 2001.
Arif, who headed the Council for the development of reformist policy, was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election, but later withdrew his candidacy in favor of Hassan Rukhani at the request of the Hats.
In the 2016 parliamentary elections, Arif managed to go to the parliament from the first place from Tehran and get the largest number of votes throughout the country in these elections. Since 2002, Arif has been a member of the Council for the Promotion of Maslahat – a constitutional body that allows disputes between Majlis and the Council of the Constitution Guardians.