Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Mohammad-Ali Najafi ( Persian محمدعلی نجفی Mohammadali Nadschafi , DMG Mohammad-ʿAlī Naǧafī ; * January 13, 1952 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian politician and mathematics professor at Sharif University of Technology .
Mohammad-Ali Najafi was Minister of Science and Technology from 1981 to 1984, and Minister of Education from 1989 to 1997. He is a founding member of the Kargozaran party founded in 1996 . Najafi was nominated again as Iranian education minister for the Rouhani I cabinet in August 2013 , but was not confirmed by the Iranian parliament .
In 2017 he was elected mayor of Tehran, where he made many enemies in a very short time with an anti-corruption campaign. After eight months in office, he was forced to resign in 2018.
At the end of May 2019, he killed Mitra Ostad, with whom he was married for the second time. He went to the police the day after the crime and said he had only threatened her with a gun. She attacked him in a panic to snatch the gun from him; shots would have been released. Najafi is on trial; he faces the death penalty .
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- ↑ president.ir
- ↑ washingtonpost.com May 29, 2019: Former Tehran mayor confesses to killing his wife, sips tea on Iranian state TV
- ↑ FAZ.net July 30, 2019: Iranian top politician faces execution
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| SURNAME | Najafi, Mohammad-Ali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Naǧafī, Mohammad-ʿAlī (other spelling); محمدعلی نجفی (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician, mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tehran , Iran |