Mohammad Reza Aref

Mohammad Reza Aref
محمدرضا عارف
Aref in 2016
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 28 May 2016 – 26 May 2020
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	1,608,926 (49.55%)
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 March 2002
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
2nd First Vice President of Iran
In office 26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Hassan Habibi
Succeeded by	Parviz Davoodi
Supervisor of Presidential Administration of Iran
In office 26 August 2001 – 10 September 2005
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani
Succeeded by	Ali Saeedlou
Vice President of Iran Head of Management and Planning Organization
In office 2 December 2000 – 11 September 2001
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Sattarifar
Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
In office 20 August 1997 – 17 June 2000
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Mohammad Gharazi
Succeeded by	Nasrollah Jahangard (acting)
Personal details
Born	(1951-12-19) 19 December 1951 (age 72) Yazd, Imperial State of Iran
Political party	Omid Iranian Foundation[1]
Other political affiliations	Islamic Iran Participation Front (Founding member)[2]
Spouse	Hamideh Moravvej Farshi
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Tehran Stanford University
Occupation	Academic
Signature
Website	Official persian website Official academic website

Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who was the parliamentary leader of reformists' Hope fraction in the Iranian Parliament, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr. Aref has also been heading the Reformists' Supreme Council for Policymaking since its establishment in 2015.^[3] He is currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

He was the second first vice president from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami.^[4] He previously served as Minister Information and Communications Technology and head of Management and Planning Organization in Khatami's first cabinet. He was a member of Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution until the year of 2021, and the current member of Expediency Discernment Council. He is also an electrical engineer and a professor at University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology. He was a candidate in the 2013 presidential election but withdrew his candidacy in order to give the reformist camp a better chance to win.^{[citation needed]}