Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani ( fa, محمدرضا راه‌چمنی‎; 1 December 1952 – 9 March 2020) was an Iranian physician and

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politician. From 1984 to 2000, he represented

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in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization.

Early life and education

Rahchamani was born in 1952 in

and studied medicine. There is no record of imprisonment for him before the

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, and he is not an

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veteran.

Career

A founding member of the

Islamic Iran Solidarity Party Islamic Iran Solidarity Party ( fa, حزب همبستگی ایران اسلامی; ''Hezb-e Hambastegi-e Iran-e Eslami'') is an Iranian reformist political party founded in 1998, by 10 members of Parliament of Iran. The party is a member of Counci ...

, from 1998 to 2002 he was the party's secretary-general and in 2006 became chairman of the central council. He was also a founding member of the Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society. In 2020, as the secretary-general of the National Unity and Cooperation Party, he defied the decision of mainstream reformists for not taking part in the 2020 Iranian legislative election, by announcing a coalition of twelve reformist parties.

Death

Rahchamani died at the age of 67 due to complications from

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on 9 March 2020.

References

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