Ahmad Tavakkoli
Iranian conservative and Iranian Principlists
Ahmad Tavakkoli
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Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
Assumed office
14 August 2017 |
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Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Chairman |
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani |
President of the Majlis Research Center | |
In office
1 July 2004 – 1 July 2012 |
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Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
Succeeded by | Kazem Jalali |
Minister of Labour | |
In office
2 November 1981 – 2 August 1983 |
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President | Ali Khamenei |
Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
Preceded by | Mohammad Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi |
Succeeded by | Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh |
Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
In office
28 May 2004 – 28 May 2016 |
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Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Majority | 776,979 |
In office
28 May 1980 – 12 November 1981 |
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Constituency | Behshahr |
Majority | 28,850 |
Personal details | |
Born |
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1951-03-05
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March 5, 1951
(age
72)
Behshahr , Iran |
Political party | Front of Transformationalist Principlists [1] |
Other political
affiliations |
Islamic Republican Party
Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization [2] |
Relatives |
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Residence(s) | Tehran , Iran |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
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Ahmad Tavakkoli ( Persian : احمد توکلی ; born 5 March 1951) is an Iranian conservative and principlist politician, journalist. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council . [5] Also he is currently managing-director of Alef news website [6] and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch . [7]
Tavakkoli is the former representative of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district in the parliament and the director of Majlis Research Center .
Career
Tavakkoli was the minister of labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi , a parliament representative from Behshahr , and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami ). [8]
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. He founded Resalat , a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK , where he received his PhD.
Views and personal life
Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, including Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani .
Tavakkoli was also a fierce critic of President Ahmadinejad . [9] On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized the then President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches. [10]
Electoral history
Year | Election | Votes | % | Rank | Notes |
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1980 [lower-alpha 1] | Parliament | 28,850 | 50.2 | 1st | Won [11] |
1993 | President | 3,972,201 | 24.3 | 2nd | Lost |
2000 [lower-alpha 2] | Parliament | 382,867 | 13.06 | 51st | Lost [12] |
2001 | President | 4,393,544 | 15.6 | 2nd | Lost |
2004 [lower-alpha 2] | Parliament | 776,979 | 39.40 | 2nd | Won [13] |
2008 [lower-alpha 2] | Parliament | 568,459 | 32.65 | 4th | Won [14] |
2012 [lower-alpha 2] | Parliament Round 1 | 481,012 | 22.69 | 7th | Went to Round 2 [15] |
Parliament Round 2 | 404,595 | 35.91 | 3rd | Won [16] | |
2016 [lower-alpha 2] | Parliament | 862,723 | 26.56 | 34th | Lost [17] |
References
- ↑ "نگاهی به شکل گیری احزاب مجلس ساخته در ایران" . Khabar Online. 20 November 2008 . Retrieved March 10, 2015 .
- ↑ "Nepotism & the Larijani Dynasty" . Tehran Bureau . August 20, 2009 . Retrieved February 20, 2015 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 Marsha B. Cohen (May 2013). "The Brothers Larijani: A sphere of power" . Al Jazeera . Retrieved 21 September 2016 .
- ↑ Denise Hassanzade Ajiri (February 2016). "An introduction to Iran's parliamentary candidates" . The Guardian . Retrieved 21 September 2016 .
- ↑ "تغییرات مجمع تشخیص؛ ریاست هاشمی شاهرودی و عضویت رئیسی و قالیباف" . 2017-08-14 . Retrieved 2019-04-04 .
- ↑ "Three successful anti-terror operations carried out" . Iran . 6 June 2015 . Retrieved 21 September 2016 .
- ↑ "Oil contracts 'generally only profiting foreigners' " . Mehr News Agency . 20 February 2016 . Retrieved 21 September 2016 .
- ↑ Muir, Jim (1 June 2001). "Iran election: People and policies" . BBC . Tehran . Retrieved 28 June 2013 .
- ↑ Sohrabi, Naghmeh (July 2011). "The Power Struggle in Iran: A Centrist Comeback?" (PDF) . Middle East Brief (53).
- ↑ "Iran gets some diplomatic heat over opposition leader arrests" . Press Roundup 3 February 2011 . Archived from the original on 9 March 2011 . Retrieved 3 March 2011 .
- ↑ "Getting to Know the Representatives in the Majles" (PDF) , Iranian Parliament , The Iran Social Science Data Portal, p. 39
- ↑ آگهی نتیجه انتخابات ششمین دوره مجلس شورای اسلامی در حوزه انتخابیه تهران، ری، شمیرانات و اسلامشهر (in Persian), archived from the original on 9 June 2011
- ↑ "آراء نهايي انتخابات مجلس هفتم در حوزه تهران اعلام شد از مجموع 3438 صندوق 1971748 برگ راي به دست آمد" , Iranian Students' News Agency (in Persian), 27 February 2004 , retrieved 10 February 2016
- ↑ "نتيجه قطعي انتخابات تهران اعلام شد" , Fars News Agency (in Persian), 17 March 2008, archived from the original on 4 March 2016 , retrieved 10 February 2016
- ↑ "۵۲۷ کاندیدای تهران در انتخابات ۱۲ اسفند چقدر رای آوردند؟" , Khabaronline (in Persian), 18 March 2012 , retrieved 10 February 2016
- ↑ نتایج نهایی و رسمی مرحله دوم انتخابات تهران + گرایش سیاسی . Asr Iran (in Persian). 16 May 2012. 212705 . Retrieved 8 June 2015 .
- ↑ "ریز آمار نتایج 1021 کاندیدای نمایندگی مجلس در تهران + فیلم مرور روز انتخابات" , Iranian Students' News Agency (in Persian), 27 February 2016 , retrieved 27 February 2016
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