1. Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942)

Iranian Politician

Affiliated with the Islamic Republican Party until 1987 and with the Green Path of Hope Party beginning in 2009, this Iranian politician held office during the 1980s as his country's...

2. Hassan Rouhani (1948)

Iranian Politician

A member of the Moderation and Development Party, he took office in 2013 as the seventh President of Iran. Earlier in his career, he had held a number of other...

3. Ali Akbar Mehrabian (1975)

Iranian Politician

Ali Akbar Mehrabian is an Iranian politician who wasminister of industries and mines from 2 November 2007 to 3 August 2011. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposed he retain this post in...

4. Mahmudali Chehregani (1958)

Iranian Politician

Mahmudali Chehregani is an Azerbaijani separatist leader born in Shabestar East Azarbaijan Province Iran in 1958.

5. Eshaq Jahangiri (1957)

Iranian Politician

Eshaq Jahangiri Kouhshahi is an Iranian politician and human rights activist and first vice president of Hassan Rouhani's government. Jahangiri was the minister of industries and mines from 1997 to...

6. Hossein Marashi (1958)

Iranian Politician

Hossein Marashi is an Iranian politician who was the Iranian Vice President for Cultural Heritage and Tourism. Prior to that Marashi represented Kerman in the Iranian parliament. He strongly backed...

7. Ali Kordan (1958)

Iranian Politician

Ali Kordan was an Iranian conservative politician who served in the Revolutionary Guards the judiciary and as deputy oil minister before becoming interior minister of Iran in 2008 for just...

8. Ahmad Vahidi (1958)

Iranian Politician

Ahmad Vahidi is an Iranian politician and former commander of the Revolutionary Guards. He was the minister of defense having held the post from 3 September 2009 until 15 August...

9. Mahmud Mahmud (1881)

Iranian Politician

Mahmud Mahmud was an Iranian politician and historian. He served as Governor of Tehran Member of Parliament and Minister of Post and Telegraph. He also was active academically. He wrote...

10. Mohammad-Ali Shahidi (1949)

Iranian Politician

Hojjatoleslam Seyed Mohammad Ali Shahidi is an Iranian cleric and politician who currently serves as Director of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs. In 2009 former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad established...

11. Abolqasem Najm (1892)

Iranian Politician

Abolghassem Nadjm Abolqāsem Najm/Abolqassem Najm was an Iranian politician cabinet minister and diplomat.

12. Mohammad-Hashem Mohaymeni (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Hashem Mohaimeni was appointed the third governor general of Golestan Province Iran in May 2002.

13. Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Javad Bahonar was an Iranian scholar Shia theologian and politician who served as the Prime minister of Iran from 15 to 30 August 1981 when he was assassinated by...

14. Mohammad-Javad Larijani (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Javad Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian politician cleric and academic.

15. Mohsen Nourbakhsh (1948)

Iranian Politician

Seyed Mohsen Nourbakhsh was an Iranian economist most known as governor of the Central Bank of Iran and the former minister of economic and finance of Iran.

16. Mostafa Chamran (1932)

Iranian Politician

Mostafa Chamran Savei was an Iranian scientist who served as first defence minister of post-revolutionary Iran and as member of parliament as well as commander of paramilitary volunteers in Iran–Iraq...

17. Nematollah Nassiri (1911)

Iranian Politician

Nematollah Nassiri was the director of SAVAK the Iranian intelligence agency during the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

18. Mohammad Soleimani (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Soleimani is an Iranian politician and former Minister of Communication and Information Technology. He is also an electrical engineer and a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology....

19. Mohammad-Reza Khatami (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad-Reza Khatami is an Iranian politician and nephrologist.

20. Hosein Dadgar (1881)

Iranian Politician

Hosein Adl-ol-Malek Dādgar was a politician of Persia. He entered politics in the cabinet of Atābak in 1910 and eventually became Parliament speaker for 4 periods.

21. Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani is an Iranian cleric conservative politician writer and current chairman of the Assembly of Experts. He is also the current leader of Combatant Clergy Association.

22. Mohsen Sadr (1866)

Iranian Politician

Mohsen Sadr was a Prime Minister of Iran. He was born in Mahallat in Markazi in 1866 as the son of Seyyed Hossein 'Fakhr ol-Zakerin' a wealthy clergyman by a...

23. Hamid Behbahani (1935)

Iranian Politician

Hamid Behbahani is an Iranian academic and politician who served as minister of roads and transportation from 2 August 2008 to 1 February 2011 when he was impeached by the...

24. Mostafa Kavakebian (1963)

Iranian Politician

Mostafa Kavakebian is an Iranian reformist politician and former representative of Semnan and Mehdishahr at Parliament of Iran.

25. Farajollah Rasai (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Admiral Farajollah Rasai was the Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy from 1961 to 1972 and the most Senior Naval Commander of the Iranian Navy. He joined the Navy in...

26. Mohammad Yeganeh (1923)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Yeganeh was an Iranian politician. Yeganeh attended Columbia University graduating in 1950 with an MA in Business & Economics. He wrote his dissertation thesis on 'Commercial policies and foreign...

27. Mohammed Emami-Kashani (1937)

Iranian Politician

Ayatollah Mohammed Emami-Kashani is a member of the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has been the Interim Friday Prayer Leader of Tehran. He has called...

28. Davoud Danesh-Jafari (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Davoud Danesh-Jafari is the former minister of economy and finance affairs of Iran.

29. Noureddin Kianouri (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Dr. Noureddin Kianouri was an Iranian architect and political leader. He was an influential member of the Central Committee for the communist Tudeh Party. He acted as the party's General...

30. Davoud Hermidas-Bavand (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Davoud Hermidas-Bavand is a renowned Iranian political scientist. Bavand obtained with honors a bachelor’s degree in law and political sciences from Tehran University in 1957. He left Iran in 1958...

31. Ali Shayegan (1903)

Iranian Politician

Dr. Ali Shayegan was an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lived in political exile in New York and New Jersey from 1958. Dr. Shayegan one of the leaders...

32. Musa al-Sadr (1928)

Iranian Politician

Mūsá aṣ-Ṣadr was an Iranian-Lebanese philosopher and Shī‘ah religious leader who disappeared in August 1978. Due to the lasting influence of his political and religious leadership in Lebanon he...

33. Mohammad Khiabani (1880)

Iranian Politician

Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni also known as Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni Tabrizi was an Iranian cleric political leader and representative to the parliament. He was born in Khameneh near Tabriz to Haji...

34. Mostafa Tajzadeh (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Seyyed Mostafa Tajzadeh is an Iranian progressive reformist politician and a member of Islamic Iran Participation Front.

35. Morteza-Qoli Bayat (1882)

Iranian Politician

Morteza Gholi Bayat was a Prime Minister of Iran. Born in Arak Iran into a family of Irans' ancient tribal nobility Chieftains of the Bayat tribe to Haj Abbas Qoli-Khan...

36. Ali Khatami (1953)

Iranian Politician

Ali Khatami is the younger brother of former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami and served as his chief of staff during his second term in office. Khatami was born to Ayatollah...

37. Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili (1926)

Iranian Politician

Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili is an Iranian politician and Twelver shi'a marja.

38. Hassan Habibi (1937)

Iranian Politician

Hassan Ebrahim Habibi was an Iranian politician lawyer scholar and the head of Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He was also a member of the High Council of Cultural...

39. Morteza Gholi Khan Hedayat (1856)

Iranian Politician

Morteza Gholi Khan Sani-ol Douleh of the Hedayat family son of Ali Gholi Khan was an Iranian politician and first chairman of the Iranian parliament. He become Member of Parliament...

40. Sattar Khan (1868)

Iranian Politician

Sattar Khan honorarily titled Sardār-e Melli was a pivotal figure in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and is considered by many Iranians to be a national hero.

41. Mohammad Marandi (1966)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Marandi is an Iranian academic political analyst and an expert on American studies and Orientalism.

42. Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani (1940)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani is an Iranian politician who has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 1997. He served as vice president in charge of executive affairs during...

43. Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877)

Iranian Politician

Mohammad Ali Foroughi Zoka-ol-Molk was a teacher diplomat writer politician and Prime Minister of Iran.

44. Ahmad Khorram (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Ahmad Khorram is Iranian politician. Khorram was the Minister of Roads and Transportation under President Mohammad Khatami until October 3 2004 when he was impeached by the Majlis of...

45. Farrokhroo Parsa (1922)

Iranian Politician

Pārsāy was an Iranian physician educator and parliamentarian.

46. Sadegh Ghotbzadeh (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh was a close aide of Ayatollah Khomeini during his 1978 exile in France and foreign minister during the Iran hostage crisis following the Iranian Revolution. In 1982...

47. Gholam-Hossein Elham (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Gholam-Hossein Elham is an Iranian politician who held several posts during the term of the former President Ahmedinejad.

48. Ahmad Madani (1928)

Iranian Politician

Ahmad Madani was an Iranian politician Commander of Iranian Navy governor of the Khuzestan province and candidate in the first Iranian presidential election.

49. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i (1956)

Iranian Politician

Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i was the minister of intelligence from 2005 to July 2009 when he was abruptly dismissed. He has also held a number of governmental posts since 1984. Currently...

50. Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (Unknow)

Iranian Politician

Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi was the second son of Mohammad Shafi Jahanshahi the former head of the supreme court of Iran. He was born in 1920 in Tehran where he attended...