Reza Taghipour | |
Office1: | Member of the Parliament of Iran |
Term Start1: | 27 May 2020 |
Constituency1: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis |
Majority1: | 728,238 (39.54%) |
Office2: | Member of City Council of Tehran |
Term Start2: | 3 September 2013 |
Term End2: | 22 August 2017 |
Majority2: | 186,020 (8.91%) |
Office3: | Minister of Information and Communications Technology |
Term Start3: | 3 September 2009 |
Term End3: | 2 December 2012 |
President3: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Predecessor3: | Mohammad Soleimani |
Birth Date: | 1957 |
Birth Place: | Maragheh, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Alma Mater: | University of Bordeaux |
Branch: | Revolutionary Guards[1] |
Battles: | Iran–Iraq War |
Reza Taghipour Anvari (born 1957 in Maragheh) is an Iranian conservative politician who was the Minister of Communications from 2009 to 2012. He was elected as a member of Tehran City Council in 2013 local elections.
Taghipour was sanctioned by the European Union on 23 March 2012 for excessive censorship activity.[2]