Mostafa Katiraei Explained

Mostafa Katiraei
Office1:Minister of Housing
Term Start1:13 February 1979
Term End1:6 November 1979
Primeminister1:Mehdi Bazargan
Predecessor1:Javad Khadem
Successor1:Mohsen Yahyavi
Birth Date:31 December 1928
Birth Place:Malayer, Iran
Death Place:Tehran, Iran
Nationality:Iranian
Alma Mater:University of Tehran
Party:Freedom Movement of Iran (affiliate non-member)
Occupation:Engineer

Mostafa Katiraei (Persian: مصطفی کتیرایی) (31 December 1928[1] [2] – 3 February 2016) was an Iranian engineer and politician who served in the interim government of Bazargan as the minister of housing.[3] He was also a member of the Council of the Islamic Revolution.[4]

Katiraei was a leading member of the Islamic Association of Engineers[5] and considered sympathetic towards the Freedom Movement of Iran.[6]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ettelaat.com/mobile/archives/267085?device=phone
  2. https://historydocuments.org/sanad/?page=show_document&id=i8iya5c6n34kc
  3. Ramsey. Christopher. 2016. The Failure of Mehdi Bazargan: How the Revolutionary Council, the Clerical Oligarchy, and United States Foreign Policy Undermined the Liberal Democracy of Iran in 1979. M.A. thesis. The George Washington University. 19. ProQuest. 9781369050424. 10149946. Advisor: Atkin, Muriel.
  4. Mohammadighalehtaki. Ariabarzan. 2012. Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat). Ph.D. thesis. Durham University. 93.
  5. Book: Eshkevari. Hasan Yousefi. Mir-Hosseini. Ziba. Tapper. Richard. Islam and Democracy in Iran: Eshkevari and the Quest for Reform. limited. 2006. I.B.Tauris. London and New York. 978-1-84511-133-5. 72.
  6. Book: Houchang E. Chehabi. Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran Under the Shah and Khomeini. I.B.Tauris. 279. 1990. 1850431981.