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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf محمد باقر قالیباف
Allegiance
Iran
Service/branch
Revolutionary Guards
Years of service
1981–2000
Rank
Brigadier general
Commands held
25th Karbala Division
Khatam-al Anbiya HQ
IRGC Air Force
Battles/wars
Iran–Iraq War
Awards
Order of Fath (2nd grade)
Order of Fath (3rd grade)
Police career
Service
Law Enforcement Force
Service years
2000–2005
Rank
Brigadier general
6th Speaker of the Parliament of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 May 2020
Deputy
First deputy(ies)
Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh
Ali Nikzad
Abdolreza Mesri
Second deputy(ies)
Ali Nikzad
Abdolreza Mesri
Mojtaba Zonnour
Preceded by
Ali Larijani
Member of the Parliament of Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 May 2020
Constituency
Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis
Majority
1,265,287 (68.69%)
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
In office 14 August 2017 – 28 May 2020
Appointed by
Ali Khamenei
Chairman
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Succeeded by
Ali Larijani
43rd Mayor of Tehran
In office 14 September 2005[1] – 23 August 2017
Deputy
Issa Sharifi[2]
Preceded by
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Succeeded by
Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Head of the Central Headquarters for Combating Goods and Currency Smuggling
In office 8 June 2004 – August 2005
President
Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Mohammad Reza Naqdi
Personal details
Born
(1961-08-23) 23 August 1961 (age 62) Torqabeh, Khorasan, Imperial State of Iran[3]
Political party
Progress and Justice Population of Islamic Iran (Spiritual leader)[4]
Other political affiliations
Coalition Council of Islamic Revolution Forces (2020)
Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces (2017)
Spouse
Zahra-Sadat Moshir-Estekhareh
(m. 1982)
Children
Elias, Eshaq, Maryam[5]
Alma mater
University of Tehran
Tarbiat Modares University
Religion
Shia Islam
Signature
Website
Official website
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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf or Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (Persian: محمد باقر قالیباف, born 23 August 1961) is an Iranian conservative politician, former military officer, and current Speaker of the Parliament of Iran since 2020. He held office as the Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017. Ghalibaf was formerly Iran's Chief of police from 2000 to 2005 and commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Air Force from 1997 to 2000.
He holds a Ph.D. in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University. He is also a pilot, certified to fly certain Airbus aircraft. He began his military career during the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. He became chief commander of the Imam Reza Brigade in 1982 and was chief commander of Nasr Division from 1983 to 1984. After the end of the war, he became Managing-Director of Khatam al-Anbia, an engineering firm controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and was appointed as commander of the IRGC Air Force in 1996 by Ali Khamenei. Four years later, he became chief of the Iranian Police Forces after the previous commander was dismissed following the 1999 student protests. He was also appointed as Representative of President Mohammad Khatami during a campaign to combat smuggling in 2002. In September 2005, he was elected as Tehran's mayor by the City Council of Tehran. He is also a professor at the University of Tehran.[6]
Ghalibaf is often regarded a perennial candidate in the presidential elections.[7] He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but lost to Hassan Rouhani, in second place with 6,077,292 of the votes. He was also a candidate in the 2005 presidential election. He announced his run for a third time in the 2017 election. However, he withdrew on 15 May 2017 in favor of Ebrahim Raisi's candidacy.
In the 2020 Iranian legislative election, the Principlists regained the majority in the legislature,[8] and Ghalibaf was elected as the new Speaker of Iran Parliament.[9]
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^"Tehran Former Deputy Mayor Arrested On Financial Charges", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 September 2017, retrieved 1 December 2017
^"The Paradoxical Politician", Iranian Diplomacy, 18 August 2010, retrieved 10 May 2017
^"Will Hassan Rouhani get a second term?", The Daily Star, 16 May 2017, retrieved 1 June 2017
^"تمام اطلاعات خانوادگی کاندیداهای ریاست جمهوری یازدهم". ISNA. 13 January 2014.
^Members of the Tehran University. geography.ut.ac.ir
^Henry Johnson (1 July 2016), "Iranians Are Mocking Tehran's Mayor for Installing Anti-American Billboards", Foreign Policy, retrieved 26 March 2015
^"Iran conservatives prevail in polls marked by low turnout".
^"Qalibaf Elected as New Speaker of Iran's Parliament - Iran Front Page". 28 May 2020.
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