Morteza Alviri born 1948, is an Iranian politician who served as Mayor of Tehran from 1999 until 2002.
He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and has a Master's in Management from the State Management Training Center.
During the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi he was imprisoned for activities with the Fallah organisation.
After the Iranian Revolution he served on the central council of the Is...
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Morteza Alviri born 1948, is an Iranian politician who served as Mayor of Tehran from 1999 until 2002.
He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran and has a Master's in Management from the State Management Training Center.
During the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi he was imprisoned for activities with the Fallah organisation.
After the Iranian Revolution he served on the central council of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. He was affiliated with the leftist Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization, and was elected an MP in the Majlis of Iran in 1980 and 1988. He was a close associate of then-speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Alviri was a supporter of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, who was dismissed as Ayatollah Khomeini's deputy in 1988, and as a result Alviri was prevented from running in the 1992 Majlis elections. Since then he moved from leftist to economically liberal views, and has served in various...
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