Mohammad Salamati Explained

Mohammad Salamati
Order1:Member of the Parliament of Iran
Term Start1:28 May 1988
Term End1:28 May 1992
Majority1:528,209 (33.6%)
Constituency1:Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Term Start2:10 September 1980
Term End2:1983
President2:
Primeminister2:
Predecessor2:Abbas Sheibani
Successor2:Abbas-Ali Zali
Party:Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization
Birth Place:Kashmar, Iran
Nationality:Iranian

Mohammad Salamati (Persian: محمد سلامتی) is an Iranian reformist politician and economist.

Career

Salamati succeeded Reza Esfahani as the agriculture minister in September 1980 and held office until a cabinet change in 1983. He was an advocate of food self-sufficiency[1] and believed "all other productive sectors of the economy were to be reoriented to meet the demands of the agricultural sector and not vice versa."[2] Salamati adopted a decentralization policy and transferred administration and servicing from Tehran to provinces.[3] In 1989, when he served as a member of the commission on financial and economic affairs in the Iranian Parliament, he criticized positioning Trade-Industrial Free Zones on borders.

Notes and References

  1. Food Supply and Agricultural Self-Sufficiency in Contemporary Iran. 617677. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 49. 1. 1986. 148–162. K. S. McLachlan . 10.1017/S0041977X00042579. 167397143 .
  2. Agricultural development planning under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian Studies. 21. 1–4. 1990. 5–29. 10.1080/00210869008701747. Mehrdad Haghayeghi. Taylor and Francis Online .
  3. Book: McLachlan, Keith Stanley. The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran. I.B.Tauris. 1988. 200. 978-1-85043-045-2.