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Ali Mohammad Besharati

Ali Mohammad Besharati

Iranian politician (born 1945)

Ali Mohammad Besharati (born 1945) is a senior Iranian politician who served as deputy foreign minister and also, interior minister.

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Early life and education

Besharati was born in Jahrom in 1945.[1][2] He studied medicine. However, he holds a bachelor's degree in education.[1] During the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, when he was a medical student, he was detained and jailed for five years.[3]

Career

Following the 1979 revolution, Besharati was elected as a deputy to the Iranian parliament where he represented Jahrom, Fars province, between 1980 and 1984.[4] He was among the founders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and headed its intelligence unit.[4] He served as the first deputy foreign minister for ten years.[3][5] He was deputy to Ali Akbar Velayati.[6] Besharati also served as an advisor to former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.[7]

Besharati was the interior minister from 16 August 1993 to 2 August 1997 in the cabinet of Hashemi Rafsanjani.[4][8] Besharati succeeded Abdollah Nouri as interior minister.[9][10] Besharati's major task was to organize the election process. It was he who appointed Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as governor.[3]

Then Besharati worked in the Strategic Studies Center.[2] As of 2012 he was serving as the political advisor to the Head of the Expediency Discernment Council.[11]

References

  1. [1]
    Jamal S. Al-Suwaidi, ed. (1996). Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability. London: I. B. Tauris. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-86064-144-2.
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    "Ali Muhammad Besharati". Utah University Archives. 12 May 2007. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
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    Michael Slackman (28 August 2006). "An Ex-Official Offers Glimpse of Iranian Views of U.S." The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
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    Mehrzad Boroujerdi; Kourosh Rahimkhani (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political Handbook. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. pp. 118, 422. ISBN 9780815654322.
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    Dilip Hiro (1985). Iran Under the Ayatollahs. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 382. ISBN 978-0-7102-1123-1.
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    Farhang Rajaee (2010). Islamism and Modernism. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-292-77436-0.
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    Hanif Zarrabi-Kashani (18 July 2013). "Iran: The Week in Review". United States Institute of Peace. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
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    Peter Feuilherade (1 April 1994). "Iran: media and the message". The Middle East. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
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    Mohammad Sahimi (28 April 2010). "The Middle Road of Hashemi Rafsanjani". PBS. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  10. [10]
    Rachel Ingber (14 August 1997). "Khatami's Cabinet Choices: On the Record". Archived from the original (PolicyWatch 264) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  11. [11]
    "NAM summit appropriate opportunity to showcase Iran's achievements - official". BBC Monitoring Middle East. London. 29 August 2012. ProQuest 1035497063. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
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