Ata'ollah Mohajerani

Ata'ollah Mohajerani
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance
In office
20 August 1997 – 14 December 2000
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byMostafa Mir-Salim
Succeeded byAhmad Masjed-Jamei
Vice President of Iran for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
1989–1997
PresidentAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded byAbdolvahed Mousavi Lari
Deputy Prime Minister of Iran for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs
In office
1985–1989
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 1980 – 28 May 1984
ConstituencyShiraz
Majority122,678 (79.8%)[1]
Personal details
Born (1954-07-24) 24 July 1954 (age 70)
Arak, Markazi province, Imperial State of Iran
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
SpouseJamileh Kadivar
Children4
Residence(s)London, England[2]
Alma materUniversity of Isfahan
Shiraz University
Tarbiat Modares University
Websitemohajerani.maktuob.net

Sayyid Ata'ollah Mohajerani (Persian: سید عطاءالله مهاجرانی, also Romanized as Atā'ollāh Mohājerāni; born 24 July 1954) is an Iranian journalist, author, and reformist politician. Mohajerani served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami from 1997 until 2000 when he was fired from office for alleged "permissiveness".[3] He is living as a UK citizen.[4]

  1. ^ "Parliament members" (in Persian). Iranian Majlis. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Iran uses fabricated WikiLeaks cable to smear UN rights rapporteur". TheGuardian.com. 2 August 2015.
  3. ^ Christopher de Bellaigue, The Struggle for Iran, New York Review of Books, 2007, p. 5
  4. ^ "Salman Rushdie and a question of power". The Spectator.

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