Native Name: | Persian: رضا رحمانی |
Reza Rahmani | |
Office: | Minister of Industry, Mines and Business |
President: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor: | Mohammad Shariatmadari |
Successor: | Ali Reza Razm Hosseini |
Term Start: | 28 October 2018 |
Term End: | 11 May 2020 |
Order2: | Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly |
Term Start2: | 3 May 2004 |
Term End2: | 27 May 2016 |
Constituency2: | Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr |
Birth Place: | Tabriz, Iran |
Reza Rahmani (fa|رضا رحمانی; born 1966) is an Iranian politician and former Minister of Industry, Mines and Business.
Rahmani was born in Tabriz. He is a member of the 7th, 8th and 9th Islamic Consultative Assembly from the electorate of Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr with Alireza Mondi Sefidan, Masoud Pezeshkian, Mir-Hadi Gharaseyyed Romiani, Mohammad Hosein Farhanghi and Mohammad Esmaeil Saeidi.[1] Rahmani won with 125,037 (39.95%) votes.
In March 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic became known to have spread to Iran, the Ministry of Industry said that Reza Rahmani was hospitalised in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Tehran due to "chemical injuries" although Iranian media had reported that he had been infected with novel coronavirus.[2] On 11 March, his infection was confirmed by semi-official Fars News Agency.[3] On 11 March, it was stated that Rahmani was believed to have recovered after receiving treatment in hospital.[4]