Mahmoud Khosravivafa Explained

Mahmoud Khosravivafa
Office:President of National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Term Start:28 August 2022
Predecessor:Reza Salehi Amiri
Office1:Member of Islamic City Council of Tehran
Term Start1:29 April 2003
Term End1:29 April 2007
Majority1:98,390 (18.67%)
Office2:President of National Paralympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Term Start2:5 February 2001
Term End2:13 December 2022
Predecessor2:Office established
Successor2:Ghafour Karegari
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
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Mahmoud Khosravivafa (Persian: محمود خسروی‌وفا) or Mahmoud Khosravi-Vafa, is an Iranian conservative politician, who is the President of National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 2022. He was a Tehran councillor member from 2003 to 2007. He was also the President of Iran's National Paralympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2001 to 2022, and the President of Sports Federation for the Disabled, in two period of times from 1981 to 1985, and from 1990 to 2017.[2]

He was appointed by Mohammad Aliabadi as one of his deputies in the Physical Education Organization, and unsuccessfully ran for president of National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2014.[3]

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  1. Web site: Popular Front of the Islamic Revolution comes into existence. 26 December 2016. Tehran Times. 26 December 2016.
  2. Web site: Khosravi-Vafa remains as Iran’s NPC president. 8 February 2010. Tehran Times. 21 June 2017.
  3. Web site: Iran's National Olympic Committee to elect new president. 20 January 2014. Mehr News Agency. 21 June 2017.