Mohammad Reza Rahimi

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Mohammad-Reza Rahimi

Mohammad-Reza Rahimi ( Persian محمدرضا رحیمی, Born January 11, 1949 in Qorveh ) is an Iranian politician . He was the First Vice President of Iran from September 13, 2009 to August 3, 2013 .

Life

Rahimi was born in 1949 (1327 according to the Islamic calendar ) in Qorveh, Iran in the province of Kordestān . He has been married since 1970 and has two children. He obtained an academic degree from Azad University in Tehran . In 1980 Rahimi was elected to the Iranian Parliament as a member of the Islamic Republican Party , where he was a member of the Foreign Policy Committee. In August 1993 he was appointed governor of the province of Kordestān by then President Ali Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni . Rahimi held this post until August 1997, when Mohammad Chātami , who was elected as Rafsanjani's successor in the 1997 presidential election, appointed new governors.

Rahimi took his dismissal as governor as an opportunity to temporarily drop out of politics and work in business for several years. In 2005 he participated in the election campaign of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , which led to the election success in the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad then made him “Vice President for Law and Parliamentary Affairs”. In September 2009, Ahmadinejad appointed him "First Vice President" of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this office he succeeded Esfandiar Rahim Maschaie , who was dismissed after a dispute between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad.

In January 2015, the Supreme Court sentenced him to five years and three months in prison for corruption.