Isa Kalantari Explained

Issa Kalantari
Order1:Vice President of Iran
Head of Department of Environment
Term Start1:13 August 2017
Term End1:3 October 2021
President1:Hassan Rouhani
Predecessor1:Masoumeh Ebtekar
Successor1:Ali Salajegheh
Office2:Minister of Agriculture
Term Start2:20 September 1988
Term End2:14 January 2001
President2:Ali Khamenei
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mohammad Khatami
Primeminister2:Mir Hossein Mousavi
Predecessor2:Abbas Ali Zali
Successor2:Mahmoud Hojjati (Merged in Jihad of Construction Ministry)
Birthname:Isa Kalantari
Birth Place:Marand, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Occupation:Politician
Profession:Agricultural engineer
Alma Mater:Urmia University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Iowa State University
Nationality:Iranian
Party:Executives of Construction Party
Signature:Isa Kalantari Signature.svg

Issa Kalantari (Persian: عیسی کلانتری, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and former vice president, former head of Urmia Lake Restoration Program, and the former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami.

Isa Kalantari lost his elder brother, Mousa, in Hafte Tir bombing on 28 June 1981.

He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University.[1] He was a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council.[2] In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.

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Notes and References

  1. Kalantari. Issa. 1981-01-01. Stimulation of corn seedling growth by allelochemicals from soybean residue. Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 10.31274/rtd-180813-5619. free.
  2. Web site: مرکز تحقیقات استراتژیک - کادرعلمی - دکتر عیسی کلانتری . Csr.ir . 2014-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131020024634/http://www.csr.ir/departments.aspx?lng=fa&abtid=09&&depid=64&&semid=300 . 2013-10-20 . dead .