President Ali Khamenei Constituency Tehran Party Islamic Coalition Party Constituency Behshahr Residence Tehran, Iran | Preceded by Mir-Mohammad Sadeqi Name Ahmad Tavakkoli Succeeded by Mehdi Karroubi Children Mohammad Tavakoli | |
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Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi Preceded by Habibollah Asgaroladi Education University of Nottingham | ||
Ahmad Tavakkoli a conservative Majles deputy attacks Ahmadinejad Dec 2010
Ahmad Tavakkoli (Persian: احمد توکلی, born 5 March 1951) is an Iranian conservative politician, journalist and anti-corruption activist. He is currently managing-director of Alef news website and founder of the corruption watchdog, non-governmental organization Justice and Transparency Watch.
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- Ahmad Tavakkoli a conservative Majles deputy attacks Ahmadinejad Dec 2010
- Career
- Views and personal life
- References
Tavakkoli is former representative of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr electoral district in the parliament and the director of Majlis Research Center.
Career
Tavakkoli was the minister of labour under Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a parliament representative from Behshahr, and a presidential candidate in two of the presidential elections in Iran (running against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami).
Tavakkoli temporarily left politics after the leftists oppositions forced him out of the ministry of labour. He founded Resalat, a conservative newspaper, and later left Iran to study economics in the UK, where he received his PhD.
Views and personal life
Tavakkoli is a critic of a capitalist economy, and backs the government's role in controlling the economy. He is a cousin of the Larijani brothers, including Ali Larijani and Mohammad Javad Larijani.
Tavakkoli is also one of the fierce critics of the President Ahmadinejad. On 2 March 2011, the PBS' Tehran Bureau reported that Tavakkoli criticized President for mentioning only Iran and not Islam in recent speeches.