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Mohammad Reza Aref

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Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف, born 19 December 1951) is an Iranian engineer, academic and reformist politician who is the eighth and current first vice president of Iran since 2024, under President Masoud Pezeshkian; he previously served as the second vice-president from 2001 to 2005 under Mohammad Khatami. He is also currently member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2002. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad Reza Aref is the 11,922nd most popular politician (up from 16,492nd in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from Iran (up from 427th in 2019) and the 148th most popular Iranian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammad Reza Aref ranks 11,922 out of 19,576Before him are Ellen Gleditsch, Petro Symonenko, Joseph Vendryes, Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus, Frederick William, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and John J. McCloy. After him are Ali Akbar Salehi, Ernest Courtot de Cissey, Wan Li, Litokwa Tomeing, Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, and Mordechai Gur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Mohammad Reza Aref ranks 232Before him are Corey Yuen, Kent Nagano, David Kabua, Matti Pellonpää, Klaus Toppmöller, and Carl Lumbly. After him are Arnold Mühren, Radia Perlman, David Kipiani, Musa Manarov, Natsuo Kirino, and Rino Fisichella.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad Reza Aref ranks 297 out of 631Before him are Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Majid Majidi (1959), Malek Jahan Khanom (1805), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), and Lady Adela (1847). After him are Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Mohammad Ali Jafari (1957), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Behrouz Vossoughi (1938), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), and Samad Behrangi (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mohammad Reza Aref ranks 148Before him are Imad al-Dawla (892), Ahmad Qavam (1876), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Malek Jahan Khanom (1805), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), and Lady Adela (1847). After him are Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945), Mohsen Rezaee (1954), Sadeq Khan Zand (1800), and Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880).