Hossein Kamali | |
Term Start: | 29 August 1989 |
Term End: | 22 August 2001 |
President: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Khatami |
Predecessor: | Abolghasem Sarhadizadeh |
Successor: | Safdar Hosseini |
Birth Date: | 27 July 1953 |
Birth Place: | Dorud County, Lorestan Province, Iran |
Party: | Islamic Labour Party |
Otherparty: | Worker House |
Hossein Kamali (Persian: حسین کمالی; born 27 July 1953) is an Iranian politician and the current secretary-general of Islamic Labour Party. He was previously Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 1989 until 2001.
Kamali was born in Dorood in 1953.
Kamali was the minister of labour under President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a post he retained under the government of Mohammad Khatami.[1] In October 2012, he was nominated as a potential candidate for the presidential elections in 2013 but withdrew on 11 May 2013.[2]