Fatemeh Javadi ( fa, فاطمه جوادی, also Romanized as “Fāteme(h) Javādī”; born 1959) is a conservative

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian politician who was

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from 2005 to 2009. She is the niece of Ayatollah

Javadi Amoli Abdollah Javadi Amoli ( fa, عبدالله جوادی آملی; born ) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza. The official ...

Education

Javadi holds a doctorate in geology and is currently teaching at the

University of Shiraz Shiraz University ( fa, دانشگاه شیراز ''Dāneshgāh-e-Shirāz'', formerly known as Pahlavi University دانشگاه پهلوی ''Dāneshgāh-e Pahlavi'') is a public university located in Shiraz, Fars, Iran, established in 1946. ...

in southern Iran.

Career and policies

After the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as

President of Iran The president of Iran ( fa, رئیس‌جمهور ایران, Rayis Jomhur-e Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader. The president ...

, Javadi was appointed Vice-President and Head of the Department of the Environment (DoE). Javadi replaced

Masoumeh Ebtekar Masoumeh Ebtekar ( fa, معصومه ابتکار; born 21 September 1960) was the former Vice President of Iran for Women and Family Affairs, from August 9, 2017, to September 1, 2021. She previously headed Department of Environment from 1997 ...

, who held the post under Mohammad Khatami. Javadi's main responsibility was to oversee the state Environmental Protection Organization. She and

Nasrin Soltankhah Nasrin Soltankhah ( fa, نسرین سلطان‌خواه) is an Iranian politician who was a Vice President under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2009 to 2013. Education Soltankhan received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (1976), a Master of Sci ...

were the only women in the cabinet. Javadi articulated some of her plans for the DoE. She stated that she would work towards the goals of institutionalizing the culture of protecting the environment, boosting public awareness about environmental considerations on the basis of sustainable development, holding environmental training courses from kindergarten all the way up to the universities, and focusing the DoE on the facilitation of research. In November 2007, Javadi organized a circus in

Pardisan Park Pardisan Park ( fa, پارک پردیسان – Pārk e Pardisān) is a complex covering more than 270 hectares, located in the northwest of Tehran. It is connected to Hemmat Expressway in the north, and to Sheikh Fazl-allah Nouri Expressway, She ...

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. She was criticized by Iranian NGOs and activists for the circus's abuse of animals.
When Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president in 2009, Javadi was replaced by Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh.

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