Abbas Sheibani | |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1931 |
Birth Place: | Tehran, Persia |
Office1: | Member of City Council of Tehran |
Term Start1: | 29 April 2003 |
Term End1: | 22 August 2017 |
Majority1: | 173,277 (7.72%) |
Term Start2: | 24 August 1981[1] |
Term End2: | 28 May 2000 |
Majority2: | 1,580,985 (85%; first term) |
Constituency2: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Office4: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start4: | 17 November 1979 |
Term End4: | 12 August 1980 |
Appointer4: | Council of Islamic Revolution |
Predecessor4: | Ali Mohammad Izadi |
Successor4: | Mohammad Salamati |
Office5: | Member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution |
Term Start5: | 15 August 1979 |
Term End5: | 15 November 1979 |
Constituency5: | Tehran |
Majority5: | 1,380,704 (54.6%) |
Alma Mater: | Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
Party: | Association of Islamic Revolution Loyalists[2] Islamic Association of Physicians[3] |
Otherparty: | Islamic Republican Party (1979–1987)[4] Freedom Movement (1961–1965)[5] National Front (1950–1961) |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Abbas Sheibani (fa|عباس شیبانی; 12 November 1931[6] – 22 December 2022) was an Iranian physician, university professor and conservative and principlist politician. He was a founding member of Freedom Movement of Iran and member of City Council of Tehran.[7] He also served as a member in both Parliament House and Assembly of Experts for Constitution. He was also Minister of Agriculture from 1979 to 1980 and President of University of Tehran from 1983 to 1984.[8] He was also a candidate for the presidential elections in July 1981 and in 1989, finishing second in both of them.
Sheibani died on 22 December 2022, at the age of 91.[9]