Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi (Persian: محمدجواد آذری جهرمی‎; born 16 September 1982) is an Iranian politician and the Minister of Information and Communications Technology in the administration of President Hassan Rouhani.

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi
Minister of Information and Communications Technology
Assumed office
20 August 2017
PresidentHassan Rouhani
Preceded byMahmoud Vaezi
Personal details
Born (1982-09-16) 16 September 1982[1]
Jahrom, Fars Province, Iran[1]
NationalityIranian
Children3
Alma materPower and Water University of Technology[2]
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He is currently the youngest member of the cabinet of Iran, as well as the first Iranian minister born after the Iranian Revolution.

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi was born in city of Jahrom, southern province of Fars in Iran and was raised in a poor family. During the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, his 16-year-old brother was martyred. He is famous in political sphere as Emanuel Macron of I.R.Iran.[3]

For Azari Jahromi, Instagram and the banned Twitter are two Platforms to reach out to local and global audiences. He has clearly stated that he does not believe in putting limitation on social media and he is the one that trying to starts initiatives for unblocking social media like twitter and websites such as Youtube.[4]

Career

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, worked at technical department of intelligence and security ministry from 2002 to 2009. His main job was in cybersecurity field and protecting digital infrastructures. Since 2009 to 2014, he was the general manager of security department at the communication regulatory authority.[5] He then became vice minister of information and communications technology, in his capacity as the chairman of Telecommunications Infrastructure Company.[4] Jahromi was also a non-executive member of the board of directors at RighTel between 2014 and 2016.[4] Azari Jahromi also, is head of two joint ICT commissions of I.R. Iran and Russian Federation and Iraq. He is active partner in initiating regional ICT market with his Russian, Turkish and Azerbaijani[6] counterparts. Since the time that he became Minister of ICT, he was active in supporting startups, and entrepreneurs and was criticizing filtering, specially filtering of social media. Within Iranian social media, he is famous as “Minister of Startups”. During his early ministry, many startups, i.e., Snapp and Tap30, and other players of digital ecosystems started their business and with his support, they flourished very quickly.[7]

Without any doubts, Azari Jahromi was the minister that initiated the first paces of platform economy in Iran. Beside these activities, in the July 2018, Azari Jahromi was the first minister who disclosed the list of companies that were getting advantage of importing cell phones with economic rents and subsidies but selling phones in free market.[8] This is the reason that he always is committed to transparency in economic transaction of his ministry that is why he oppose the value added business of telecom operators and content providers due to unclear transactions between people and them.[9]

Due to those decisive actions, he was the regular target of Hard-liners, but he chose to have ties with people of the society rather than power camps. With distancing himself from both Reformist and Conservative camps, he is trying to be pragmatic and socially motivated.[3]

References
  1. "Iran-related Designation", United States Department of the Treasury, 22 November 2019, retrieved 22 November 2019
  2. "Hassan Rouhani's cabinet is complete. Here's the full list", Tehran Times, 8 August 2017, retrieved 8 August 2017
  3. Faghihi, Rohollah (25 October 2019). "Is Iran's Information Minister the Islamic Republic's Emmanuel Macron?". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. "Proposed ICT Minister Promises More, Better Internet", Financial Tribune, 16 August 2017, retrieved 28 January 2021
  5. Bagheri, Mozhdeh (3 December 2019). "بیوگرافی آذری جهرمی؛ وزیر ارتباطات و فناوری اطلاعات دولت دوازدهم". click. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  6. "4 Nations Discuss Regional ICT Pact". financial tribune. 18 July 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  7. "5,000 startup cores competing in Iran: ICT minister". iranpress. 17 December 2020.
  8. "انتشار لیست واردکنندگان موبایل با ارز دولتی/ جهرمی: زیان‌دیدگان از طریق تعزیرات خسارت بگیرند". ISNA. 24 June 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  9. "خط و نشان آذری جهرمی؛ سرویس‌های ارزش افزوده را برای همیشه تعطیل می کنیم". donya-e-eqtesad. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
Government offices
Preceded by
Mahmoud Vaezi		 Minister of Information and Communications Technology
20 August 2017–present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Mahmoud Khosravi		 Vice Minister and CEO of Telecommunication Infrastructure Company
11 May 2016–20 August 2017		 Succeeded by
Farhad Maarefi (acting)
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