Masoud Mir-Kazemi

Masoud Mir Kazemi (Persian: مسعود میرکاظمی‎; born c. 1960) is an Iranian conservative politician who was a member of the Parliament of Iran from Tehran district from 2012 until 2016. He was previously served ministerial post in the cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Masoud Mir Kazemi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
27 May 2012 – 27 May 2016
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority585,228 (25.2%)
Minister of Petroleum
In office
9 August 2009 – 16 May 2011
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byGholam Hossein Nozari
Succeeded byMahmoud Ahmadinejad (Acting)[1]
Minister of Commerce
In office
24 August 2005 – 9 August 2009
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded byMohammad Shariatmadari
Succeeded byMehdi Ghazanfari
Personal details
Bornc. 1960 (age 60–61)
Tehran, Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partyStability Front
Alma materIran University of Science and Technology
Tarbiat Modarres University
Military service
Branch/serviceRevolutionary Committee
Revolutionary Guards
Years of service1979–2005[2]

Early life and education

Kazemi was born in Tehran in 1960.[3][4] He received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Iran University of Science and Technology in 1986 and 1989, respectively.[3] He also holds PhD in industrial engineering from Tarbiat Modarres University (1996).[4]

Career

After the 1979 revolution, Kazemi became a member of the revolution committees and then of the IRGC.[3] Then he headed Shahed University. He was Iran's minister of commerce during the first term of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009.[5] Kazemi discussed the possibility of making neighbouring Iraq a major gas export market, citing the destruction of Iraq's energy infrastructure as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[6]

He served as minister of petroleum from 2009 to 2011,[7] replacing Gholam Hossein Nozari after Ahmadinejad was re-elected.[5]

On 14 October 2010, Mir Kazemi was elected as conference president for 2011 OPEC.

On 9 May 2011, it was announced that Mir Kazemi, Sadegh Mahsouli and Ali Akbar Mehrabian would leave the cabinet.[8] He was not participating in cabinet meetings from June 2011 and Mohammad Aliabadi was acting minister in his absence. He announced his candidacy for Parliament of Iran in the 2012 legislative election on 22 December 2011 and was elected as an MP from Tehran.

References
  1. Matt Smith (16 May 2011). "Ahmadinejad losing ground in Iran power struggle, analysts say". CNN. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. "A Brief Biography of Iran's New Ministers". Payvand. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  3. "A Brief Biography of Iran's New Ministers". Payvand. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  4. "162nd Ordinary Meeting" (PDF). OPEC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  5. "President Nominates Mir-Kazemi to Lead Iran's Oil Ministry". Shana. 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
  6. "Iran eyes Iraq for gas export market". Fars News Agency via United Press International. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
  7. "Iran-NDE - Central Intelligence Agency". Central Intelligence Agency. 10 December 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
  8. Mehrabian, Mir Kazemi and Mahsouli will leave cabinet Archived 17 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Tabnak
Political offices
Preceded by
Mohammad Shariatmadari		 Minister of Commerce
2005-2009		 Succeeded by
Mehdi Ghazanfari
Preceded by
Gholam Hossein Nozari		 Minister of Petroleum
2009–2011		 Succeeded by
Rostam Ghasemi
Assembly seats
Preceded by
Hamid Reza Katouzian		 President of Iranian Parliament Commission on Energy
12 June 2012–17 June 2014		 Succeeded by
Ali Marvi
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