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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei

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Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei (Persian: اسفندیار رحیم‌مشایی; born 16 November 1960) is an Iranian conservative politician and former intelligence officer. As a senior Cabinet member in the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he served as Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2013, and served as the fourth first vice president of Iran for one week in 2009 until his resignation was ordered by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A close ally of President Ahmadinejad, Mashaei was viewed by many Iranian clerics as an anti-establishment activist and secular-oriented nationalist. He has been criticized by religious conservatives for alleged "deviant tendencies," such as elevating Iranian heritage and nationalism above Islam as well as for statements he has made criticizing the Assembly of Experts and the theocratic doctrine of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists, and advocating for the clergy to remove themselves from the political establishment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is the 17,189th most popular politician (down from 16,891st in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Iran (up from 443rd in 2019) and the 187th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 17,189 out of 19,576. Before him are Frits Goedgedrag, Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, Patricia Roberts Harris, Erkki Liikanen, Mamuka Bakhtadze, and Jim Webb. After him are Malcolm MacDonald, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Hiroshi Abe, Jose W. Diokno, Aleksandras Abišala, and Richard Mulcahy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 488. Before him are Ian McDonald, Mark Schultz, Mirko Bašić, Takashi Sekizuka, Erin Moran, and Perrine Pelen. After him are David Miscavige, Yasushi Yoshida, Inger Helene Nybråten, Mikel Herzog, Kurt Sutter, and Marco Albarello.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 436 out of 631. Before him are Aylar Lie (1984), Hadi Choopan (1987), Parviz Parastui (1955), Masih Alinejad (1976), Parviz Davoodi (1952), and Afshin Ghotbi (1964). After him are Iraj Danaeifard (1951), Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Shahab Hosseini (1974), Razi Mousavi (1962), and Amir Ghalenoei (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei ranks 187. Before him are Eshaq Jahangiri (1958), Manouchehr Mottaki (1953), Harold Nicolson (1886), Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960), Fatemeh Rahbar (1964), and Parviz Davoodi (1952). After him are Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Hossein Rezazadeh (1978), Abdolmalek Rigi (1979), Valerie Jarrett (1956), Amineh Kakabaveh (1970), and Salima Mazari (1980).

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