Ahmad Tavakkoli

Ahmad Tavakkoli
احمد توکلی
Ahmad Tavakkoli; احمد توکلی
Minister of Labour
	In office; 12 November 1981 – 1 November 1985
President	Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi
Succeeded by	Abolqasem Sarhadizadeh
Head of Relief Foundation
	In office; 19 December 1979 – 12 November 1981
Preceded by	Habibollah Asgaroladi
Succeeded by	Mehdi Karoubi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 May 2004
Constituency	Tehran
	In office; 4 May 1980 – 12 November 1981
Constituency	Behshahr
Personal details
Born	March 1951 (age 73); Behshahr, Iran
Political party	Islamic Coalition Party
Residence(s)	Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Website	Official website

Ahmad Tavakkoli (Template:Lang-fa) (born 1951) is a conservative representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament and the former director of Majlis Research Center.

Career

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).^[1]

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.

Views and personal life

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 is also one of the fierce critics of the President Ahmadinejad.^[2] On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches.^[3]

References

^ Muir, Jim (1 June 2001). "Iran election: People and policies". BBC. Tehran. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
^ Sohrabi, Naghmeh (July 2011). "The Power Struggle in Iran: A Centrist Comeback?" (PDF). Middle East Brief (53).
^ "Iran gets some diplomatic heat over opposition leader arrests". Press Roundup 3 February 2011. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

This article about an Iranian politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[jim1jun-1] Muir, Jim (1 June 2001). "Iran election: People and policies". BBC. Tehran. Retrieved 28 June 2013.

[rabi11-2] Sohrabi, Naghmeh (July 2011). "The Power Struggle in Iran: A Centrist Comeback?" (PDF). Middle East Brief (53).

[3] "Iran gets some diplomatic heat over opposition leader arrests". Press Roundup 3 February 2011. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[1]

[2]

[3]