Masoud Pezeshkian

Masoud Pezeshkian
مسعود پزشکیان
Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
Assumed office
3 May 2008
Constituency Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr
Majority 261,605 (10th Majlis)
Minister of Health and Medical Education
In office
29 August 2001  29 August 2005
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Mohammad Farhadi
Succeeded by Kamran Bagheri Lankarani
Personal details
Born (1954-09-29) September 29, 1954
Mahabad, Iran
Political party Reform
Alma mater Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and Iran University of Medical Sciences (Expertise)
Religion Shia Islam

Masoud Pezeshkian (Persian: مسعود پزشکیان, born 29 September 1954 in Mahabad from Azerbaijani family)[1] is an Iranian politician who was Minister of Health between 2001 and 2005 in the cabinet of President Mohammad Khatami. He was also the chancellor of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences for 7 years. He is a heart surgeon and an academic member of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences at the present time. He is elected as one of Iranian parliament members from Tabriz in 2008 election. He had a speech on condemnation of violence against fraud in Iranian presidential election on June 30, 2009 in Iran parliament. In 2010, he failed in his bid to become deputy speaker of parliament.[2] He is also a member of Iran-Turkey Friendship society.[3] Pezeshkian is one of the supporter of Azerbaijani language teaching in schools in Iran.[1]

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