Mojtaba Rahmandoust

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Mojtaba Rahmandoust
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Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2012 28 May 2016
Constituency Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority 279,302 (24.79%) [1]
Advisor to the President of Iran for Veteran's Affairs
In office
1997–2010
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mohammad Khatami
Personal details
Bornc. 1954 (age 6364) [1]
Hamadan, Iran [1]
Nationality Iranian
Political party Society of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution
Alma mater University of Tehran
Website rahmandoost.ir
Military service
Service/branch Basij
Years of service 1983
Battles/wars Iran–Iraq War  (WIA)

Mojtaba Rahmandoust (Persian : مجتبی رحماندوست) is an Iranian conservative politician who served a member of the Parliament of Iran from 2012 to 2016, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. [1]

Persian language Western Iranian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is a pluricentric language primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and some other regions which historically were Persianate societies and considered part of Greater Iran. It is written right to left in the Persian alphabet, a modified variant of the Arabic script.

The Principlists also interchangeably known as the Iranian Conservatives and formerly referred to as the Right or Right-wing, are one of two main political camps inside post-revolutionary Iran, the other being Reformists. The term ‘hardliners’ that some western sources use in the Iranian political context, usually refers to the faction, despite the fact it includes also more centrist tendencies.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. Muhammad Sahimi (2 January 2011), "Ahmadinejad Fires 14 Advisers in Major Shake-up", PBS, retrieved 11 December 2016