Mohammad-Javad Abtahi | |
Birth Name: | Seyyed Mohammad-Javad Abtahi |
Birth Place: | Khomeinishahr, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Order1: | Member of the Parliament of Iran |
Term Start1: | 28 May 2016 |
Term End1: | 26 May 2020 |
Constituency1: | Khomeinishahr |
Majority1: | 45,514 (43.03%)[1] |
Term Start2: | 28 May 2008 |
Term End2: | 28 May 2012 |
Constituency2: | Khomeinishahr |
Party: | Front of Islamic Revolution Stability |
Mohammad-Javad Abtahi (Persian: محمدجواد ابطحی) is an Iranian conservative politician who represented Khomeinishahr in the Parliament of Iran. He was a member of Front of Islamic Revolution Stability.
In January 2020, he led the support for the designation of the United States The Pentagon as a terrorist organization in response to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani[2] Abathi also advocated against the ability for citizens to have 'other' listed as a religious affiliation on their ID cards as it would infer that the state recognizes a religion other than Islam.[3]