Sowlat Mortazavi | |
Office: | Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare |
Term Start: | 19 October 2022 |
Term End: | 21 August 2024 |
President: | Ebrahim Raisi Mohammad Mokhber (acting) |
Predecessor: | Hojjatollah Abdolmaleki |
Successor: | Ahmad Meydari |
Office1: | Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs |
Term Start1: | 5 September 2021 |
Term End1: | 19 October 2022 |
President1: | Ebrahim Raisi |
Predecessor1: | Office vacant, last held by Mohammad Shariatmadari (2017) |
Successor1: | Mohsen Mansouri |
Office2: | Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran |
Term Start2: | 5 September 2021 |
Term End2: | 19 October 2022 |
President2: | Ebrahim Raisi |
Predecessor2: | Mahmoud Vaezi |
Successor2: | Mohsen Mansouri |
Office3: | Mayor of Mashhad |
Term Start3: | 1 October 2013 |
Term End3: | 1 September 2017 |
Predecessor3: | Mohammad Pejman |
Successor3: | Ghasem Taghizadeh-Khamesi |
Office4: | Governor General of South Khorasan |
Term Start4: | 2005 |
Term End4: | 2009 |
President4: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Predecessor4: | Ebrahim Rezaei Babadi |
Successor4: | Ghahreman Rashid |
Birth Date: | 5 May 1955 |
Birth Place: | Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Party: | Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Sowlat Mortazavi (fa|صولت مرتضوی, born 5 May 1955) is an Iranian conservative politician and was Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. He is formerly Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs and also former Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran.
He is former Mayor of Mashhad. He was elected as the Mayor by the City Council by 19 votes on 20 September 2013 and sworn in on 1 October.[1] Before that, he was under-secretary in Politics of Ministry of Interior during Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar's time as Interior Minister. He was also Mayor of Birjand from 1990 to 1999.[2]
He was appointed as head of Country's Election Headquarters on 17 May 2011.[3] On 20 June 2017, he was suspended from his position as Mayor of Mashhad and all political offices by administrative justice court after he prevented from auditing in the municipality.[4]