Hassan Ghafourifard ( fa, حسن غفوری‌فرد) (born 5 August 1943) is an Iranian academic and

conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...

politician. Ghafourifard held government portfolios in the 1980s, before being appointed as the

Physical Education Organization The Physical Education Organization was an effort by the Government of Iran to promote the development of athletics and sporting activities of Iran. It was dissolved in late 2010 and its responsibilities transferred to the Ministry of Sport and Y ...

under president

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ( fa, اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی, Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī, born Akbar Hashemi Bahramani, 25 August 1934 – 8 January 2017) was an Iranian politician, writer, and one of the founding fathers of the Islami ...

. 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 citie ...

twice in the

Parliament of Iran The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The Pa ...

, as well as serving a brief spell from Mashhad and Kalat electoral district. Ghafourifard ran for

Iranian presidential election The President of Iran is the highest official elected by direct, popular vote, although the President carries out the decrees, and answers to the Supreme Leader of Iran, who functions as the country's head of state.(see Article 110 of the constituti ...

s 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