Hassan Ghafourifard ( fa, حسن غفوری‌فرد) (born 5 August 1943) is an Iranian academic and conservative politician. Ghafourifard held government portfolios in the 1980s, before being appointed as the Physical Education Organization under president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He formerly represented

Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis ( fa, تهران، ری، شمیرانات، اسلامشهر و پردیس) is a constituency for the Parliament of Iran encompassing the metropolitan area of Tehran and some of its satellite citi ...

twice in the Parliament of Iran, as well as serving a brief spell from Mashhad and Kalat electoral district. Ghafourifard ran for Iranian presidential elections twice, and was defeated in both October 1981 and

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

elections.

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1943 births Living people Members of the 1st Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the 5th Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the 7th Islamic Consultative Assembly Members of the 8th Islamic Consultative Assembly Deputies of Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr Deputies of Mashhad and Kalat Coalition of Iran's Independent Volunteers politicians Islamic Coalition Party politicians Central Council of the Islamic Republican Party members Islamic Society of Engineers politicians Islamic Society of Athletes politicians Voice of Nation politicians University of Kansas alumni Candidates in the 2001 Iranian presidential election Heads of Physical Education Organization Government ministers of Iran Imam Khomeini International University faculty Amirkabir University of Technology faculty Iranian governors Popular Front of Islamic Revolution Forces politicians Secretaries-General of political parties in Iran {{Iran-politician-stub