Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf or Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf ( Persian محمدباقر قالیباف; * September 2, 1961 in Torqabeh near Mashhad ) is an Iranian politician and served as Lord Mayor of Tehran from 2005 to 2017 . He has been speaker of the Iranian parliament since 2020.
education
At the age of 22 he was appointed commander of the Nasr division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard by Mohsen Rezai in the First Gulf War , and later transferred to the air force department. In 1996 he completed his studies with a postgraduate Master of Arts in political geography . This was followed in 2001 by a doctorate in the same field of science at Tarbiat Modares University .
Political career
After the student unrest in July 1999 , Ghalibaf was appointed police chief to succeed General Hedayat Lotfian by the Iranian leader Ali Chamene'i . He introduced the "Police 110" project in order to make it easier for the public to reach the authorities. He also managed to cope with the student protests in 2003 together with his deputy Morteza Talaei without bloodshed. On behalf of Iranian President Mohammad Chātami , he was also his representative in the committee to reduce car traffic. On April 5, 2005, Ghalibaf successfully applied to Ali Khamenei to resign from all military posts.
In the Iranian presidential election in 2005 , Ghalibaf took part with the support of influential groups in the conservative alliance. This supported him, probably because of his popularity. Shortly before the election, however, this alliance turned to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who won the election. Although Ali Khamenei specifically pointed out that because of the secrecy of the election, nobody could know his vote, it is believed that Ghalibaf was initially supported by him.
In the elections on September 5, 2005, Ghalibaf was elected 57th Lord Mayor of Tehran and succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in this office. He received 8 out of 15 votes in the electoral council. After Ahmadinejad's internal political difficulties increased, observers expected Ghalibaf to participate again in the 2009 presidential election , but this did not materialize. In the 2013 presidential election , Ghalibaf ran again.
On May 28, 2020, he was elected President of Parliament and Speaker of the Iranian Parliament with 231 votes .
Involvement in human rights abuses
However, after he visited the city of Hanover in 2010 on the occasion of the 10th birthday of the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) of Professor Madjid Samii and entered the city's golden book , there were protests by the National Council of Resistance of Iran . Based on information from the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center , according to which Ghalibaf accused himself in a recorded speech of participating in the crackdown on student protests in July 1999 , the organization is calling for Ghalibaf to be banned from entering Europe and for any assets he may have in Europe to be frozen.
Web links
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- ↑ Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation 10/2005 (PDF; 97 kB)
- ↑ Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation 102005 (PDF; 97 kB)
- ↑ Iran Report of the Heinrich Böll Foundation 08/2006 (PDF; 108 kB)
- ↑ IFP Editorial Staff: Qalibaf Elected as New Speaker of Iran's Parliament. In: Iran Front Page. May 28, 2020, accessed on July 16, 2020 .
- ^ Kra: Controversial reception / Golden Book of Hanover "stained with blood"? on the online edition of the Neue Presse from July 26, 2010, last accessed on July 21, 2012
- ↑ Julia's blog : Tehran's mayor Ghalibaf boasts of role in cracking down on protests
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ghalibaf, Mohammad Bagher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | محمدباقر قالیباف (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian politician, Mayor of Tehran |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Mashhad |