Mehrdad Bazrpash | |
Office: | 5th Minister of Roads and Urban Development |
President: | Ebrahim Raisi Mohammad Mokhber (acting) |
Term Start: | 7 December 2022 |
Predecessor: | Rostam Ghasemi |
Office1: | President of the Supreme Audit Court |
Term Start1: | 22 July 2020 |
Term End1: | 10 December 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Adel Azar |
Successor1: | Ahmad-Reza Dastgheib |
Office2: | Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly |
Constituency2: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Term Start2: | 28 May 2012 |
Term End2: | 28 May 2016 |
Majority2: | 271,771 (24.12%) |
Office3: | Vice President of Iran Head of National Youth Organization |
President3: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Term Start3: | 24 July 2009 |
Term End3: | 28 November 2010 |
Predecessor3: | Javad Haji Aliakbari |
Successor3: | Farahnaz Torkestani |
Office4: | Advisor to the President of Iran |
President4: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
President5: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Term Start4: | 28 November 2010 |
Term End4: | 28 May 2012 |
Term Start5: | 18 August 2005 |
Term End5: | 17 October 2006 |
Birth Name: | Mehrdad Bazrpash |
Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
Party: | Stability Front |
Otherparty: | Pleasant Scent of Servitude |
Alma Mater: | Allameh Tabatabaei University Sharif University of Technology |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Mehrdad Bazrpash (Persian: مهرداد بذرپاش; born 1980) is an Iranian principlist politician, and the current Minister of Roads and Urban Development since December 2022. He was also the President of the Supreme Audit Court from 2020 to 2022.
He was formerly member of Iran Parliament and CEO of two largest Iran's automakers SAIPA and Pars Khodro in 2000s and served as Iran's Vice President and head of Iran's National Youth Organization. He was the owner of newspaper Vatan-e-Emrooz.
Year | Election | Votes | % | Rank | Notes | |
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2006 | City Council of Tehran | 150,088 | 9.06 | 23rd | Lost[1] | |
2012 | Parliament Round 1 | 357,145 | 15.29 | 21st | Went to Round 2 | |
Parliament Round 2 | 271,771 | 24.12 | 21st | Won[2] | ||
2016 | Parliament | 777,871 | 23.95 | 37th | Lost |