Ahmad Tavakkoli | |
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Member of Expediency Discernment Council | |
Assumed office 14 August 2017 | |
Appointed by | Ali Khamenei |
Chairman |
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani |
President of the Majlis Research Center | |
In office 1 July 2004 – 1 July 2012 | |
Preceded by | Mohammad Reza Khatami |
Succeeded by | Kazem Jalali |
Minister of Labour | |
In office 2 November 1981 – 2 August 1983 | |
President | Ali Khamenei |
Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
Preceded by | Mohammad Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi |
Succeeded by | Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh |
Member of the Parliament of Iran | |
In office 28 May 2004 – 28 May 2016 | |
Constituency | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr |
Majority | 776,979 |
In office 28 May 1980 – 12 November 1981 | |
Constituency | Behshahr |
Majority | 28,850 |
Personal details | |
Born | Behshahr, Iran | March 5, 1951
Political party | Front of Transformationalist Principlists [1] |
Other political affiliations |
Islamic Republican Party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization [2] |
Relatives |
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Residence(s) | Tehran, Iran |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
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Ahmad Tavakkoli ( Persian: احمد توکلی; born 5 March 1951) is an Iranian conservative and principlist politician, journalist. He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council. [5] Also he is currently managing-director of Alef news website [6] and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch. [7]
Tavakkoli is the former representative of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district in the parliament and the director of Majlis Research Center.
Tavakkoli was the minister of labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami). [8]
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK, where he received his PhD.
Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, including Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani.
Tavakkoli was also a fierce critic of President Ahmadinejad. [9] On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized the then President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches. [10]
Year | Election | Votes | % | Rank | Notes |
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1980 [a] | Parliament | 28,850 | 50.2 | 1st | Won [11] |
1993 | President | 3,972,201 | 24.3 | 2nd | Lost |
2000 [b] | Parliament | 382,867 | 13.06 | 51st | Lost [12] |
2001 | President | 4,393,544 | 15.6 | 2nd | Lost |
2004 [b] | Parliament | 776,979 | 39.40 | 2nd | Won [13] |
2008 [b] | Parliament | 568,459 | 32.65 | 4th | Won [14] |
2012 [b] | Parliament Round 1 | 481,012 | 22.69 | 7th | Went to Round 2 [15] |
Parliament Round 2 | 404,595 | 35.91 | 3rd | Won [16] | |
2016 [b] | Parliament | 862,723 | 26.56 | 34th | Lost [17] |