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Sowlat Mortazavi

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Sowlat Mortazavi
صولت مرتضوی
Mortazavi in 2023
Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare
In office
19 October 2022 – 21 August 2024
PresidentEbrahim Raisi
Mohammad Mokhber (acting)
Preceded byHojjatollah Abdolmaleki
Succeeded byAhmad Meydari
Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs
In office
5 September 2021 – 19 October 2022
PresidentEbrahim Raisi
Preceded byOffice vacant, last held by Mohammad Shariatmadari (2017)
Succeeded byMohsen Mansouri
Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran
In office
5 September 2021 – 19 October 2022
PresidentEbrahim Raisi
Preceded byMahmoud Vaezi
Succeeded byMohsen Mansouri
Mayor of Mashhad
In office
1 October 2013 – 1 September 2017
Preceded byMohammad Pejman
Succeeded byGhasem Taghizadeh-Khamesi
Governor General of South Khorasan
In office
2005–2009
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byEbrahim Rezaei Babadi
Succeeded byGhahreman Rashid
Personal details
Born (1955-05-05) 5 May 1955 (age 69)
Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
Political partySociety of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution[1]

Sowlat Mortazavi (Persian: صولت مرتضوی, born 5 May 1955) is an Iranian conservative politician and was Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare of Iran. He is formerly Vice President of Iran for Executive Affairs and also former Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran.

He is former Mayor of Mashhad. He was elected as the Mayor by the City Council by 19 votes on 20 September 2013 and sworn in on 1 October.[2] Before that, he was under-secretary in Politics of Ministry of Interior during Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar's time as Interior Minister. He was also Mayor of Birjand from 1990 to 1999.[3]

He was appointed as head of Country's Election Headquarters on 17 May 2011.[4] On 20 June 2017, he was suspended from his position as Mayor of Mashhad and all political offices by administrative justice court after he prevented from auditing in the municipality.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Samii, Abbas W. (Winter 2005), "The Changing Landscape of Party Politics in Iran—A Case Study" (PDF), Journal of the European Society for Iranian Studies (1): 53–62
  2. ^ صولت مرتضوی شهردار مشهد شد؛ پژمان به تهران آمد
  3. ^ سیدصولت مرتضوی، از بخشداری زادگاهش تا شهرداری مشهد
  4. ^ سیدصولت مرتضوی ‌رئیس ستاد انتخابات کشور ‌شد. Aftab News Agency (in Persian). 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. ^ "انفصال از خدمت شهردار مشهد/ علت صدور حکم دیوان محاسبات علیه صولت مرتضوی چیست؟".
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Government offices
Preceded by Head of Country's Election Headquarters
2012 legislative election
2013 presidential election
Succeeded by