Ali Asqar Peyvandi ( fa, علی اصغر پیوندی) born 1962-

Sorkheh Sorkheh ( fa, سرخه, also Romanized as Surkheh; in sqo, سور ''Sūr''; literally "the red one") is a city in and the capital of Sorkheh County, in Semnan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,062, in 2,686 families. Sork ...

, is an Iranian physician, politician and university professor. He was the head of the

Iranian Red Crescent Society The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), officially the Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( fa, جمعیت هلال احمر جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Jamʿiyyat-e Helâl-e Ahmar-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân) is a n ...

between 2017 and 2019 when he was forced to resign before being arrested on charges of embezzlement.

Education

Peyvandi received his general medical degree from Shiraz University of Medical Science in 1989 and also

Otorhinolaryngology Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical a ...

degree from the same university in 1993. He also took an additional surgery course in 2001 at

University of Graz The University of Graz (german: link=no, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, ), located in Graz, Austria, is the largest and oldest university in Styria, as well as the second-largest and second-oldest university in Austria. History The unive ...

Arrest

He was arrested on embezzlement charges on 2 November 2019 and released in few hours on a 30 billion IRR collateral. On 4 December 2019, he was arrested for the second time after he resigned from his position as the head of the

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