Masoud Mir-Kazemi

Masoud Mir Kazemi (Persian: مسعود میرکاظمی‎; born c. 1960) is an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Parliament of Iran from Tehran district from 2012 until 2016. He was previously served ministerial post in the cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Masoud Mir Kazemi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 27 May 2012 – 27 May 2016
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	585,228 (25.2%)
Minister of Petroleum
In office 9 August 2009 – 16 May 2011
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Gholam Hossein Nozari
Succeeded by	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Acting)[1]
Minister of Commerce
In office 24 August 2005 – 9 August 2009
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Mohammad Shariatmadari
Succeeded by	Mehdi Ghazanfari
Personal details
Born	c. 1960 (age 60–61) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Stability Front
Alma mater	Iran University of Science and Technology Tarbiat Modarres University
Military service
Branch/service	Revolutionary Committee Revolutionary Guards
Years of service	1979–2005[2]

Early life and education

Kazemi was born in Tehran in 1960.[3][4] He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Iran University of Science and Technology in 1986 and 1989, respectively.[3] He also holds PhD in industrial engineering from Tarbiat Modarres University (1996).[4]

Career

After the 1979 revolution, Kazemi became a member of the revolution committees and then of the IRGC.[3] Then he headed Shahed University. He was Iran's minister of commerce during the first term of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009.[5] Kazemi discussed the possibility of making neighbouring Iraq a major gas export market, citing the destruction of Iraq's energy infrastructure as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[6]

He served as minister of petroleum from 2009 to 2011,[7] replacing Gholam Hossein Nozari after Ahmadinejad was re-elected.[5]

On 14 October 2010, Mir Kazemi was elected as conference president for 2011 OPEC.

On 9 May 2011, it was announced that Mir Kazemi, Sadegh Mahsouli and Ali Akbar Mehrabian would leave the cabinet.[8] He was not participating in cabinet meetings from June 2011 and Mohammad Aliabadi was acting minister in his absence. He announced his candidacy for Parliament of Iran in the 2012 legislative election on 22 December 2011 and was elected as an MP from Tehran.

References

1. Matt Smith (16 May 2011). "Ahmadinejad losing ground in Iran power struggle, analysts say". CNN. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
2. "A Brief Biography of Iran's New Ministers". Payvand. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
3. "A Brief Biography of Iran's New Ministers". Payvand. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
4. "162nd Ordinary Meeting" (PDF). OPEC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
5. "President Nominates Mir-Kazemi to Lead Iran's Oil Ministry". Shana. 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
6. "Iran eyes Iraq for gas export market". Fars News Agency via United Press International. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
7. "Iran-NDE - Central Intelligence Agency". Central Intelligence Agency. 10 December 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
8. Mehrabian, Mir Kazemi and Mahsouli will leave cabinet Archived 17 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Tabnak

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