Isa Kalantari

Issa Kalantari (Persian: عیسی کلانتری, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and the current head of Department of Environment. He served as minister of agriculture in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and first term of president Mohammad Khatami.

Issa Kalantari
Vice President of Iran
Head of Department of Environment
Assumed office
13 August 2017
PresidentHassan Rouhani
Preceded byMasoumeh Ebtekar
Minister of Agriculture
In office
19 August 1989  14 January 2001
PresidentAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Mohammad Khatami
Preceded byAbbas Ali Zali
Succeeded byMahmoud Hojjati (Merged in Jihad of Construction Ministry)
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Born
Isa Kalantari

1952 (age 6869)
Marand, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
Alma materUrmia University
University of Nebraska system
Iowa State University
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionAgricultural engineer
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He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from University of Nebraska, and PhD in agricultural physiology from Iowa State University.[1] He is a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the Expediency Discernment Council.[2] In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then. He is the brother of Mousa Kalantari.

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