Hossein Mozaffar | |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | Malayer, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Order1: | Member of the Parliament of Iran |
Term Start1: | 28 May 2012 |
Term End1: | 28 May 2016 |
Constituency1: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Majority1: | 298,629 (26.5%) |
Term Start2: | 28 May 2004 |
Term End2: | 28 May 2008 |
Constituency2: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Majority2: | 589,091 (29.87%) |
Office3: | Member of Expediency Discernment Council |
Term Start3: | 16 March 2002 |
Appointer3: | Ali Khamenei |
1Blankname3: | Chairman |
1Namedata3: | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
Order4: | Minister of Education |
Term Start4: | 20 August 1997 |
Term End4: | 22 August 2001 |
President4: | Mohammad Khatami |
Predecessor4: | Mohammad-Ali Najafi |
Successor4: | Morteza Haji |
Party: | Society of Pathseekers of the Islamic Revolution |
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Hossein Mozaffar (Persian: حسین مظفر) is an Iranian conservative politician who was Minister of Education under President Mohammad Khatami and represented Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr in the Parliament of Iran twice.[1] He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.[2]
He is considered an ally of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf[3] and close to Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran. Mozaffar was Ghalibaf's campaign manager in 2013 presidential election.[4]