Mohammad Saeedikia (born 1946) is an Iranian politician who is the former head of

Bonyad-e Mostazafen va Janbazan The Mostazafan Foundation of Islamic Revolution ( fa, بنیاد مستضعفان انقلاب اسلامی) formerly Bonyad-e Mostazafan va Janbazan (Foundation of the Oppressed and Disabled or "MFJ") is a charitable '' bonyad'', or foundation, i ...

(Foundation of the Oppressed and Disabled), from 2014 to 2019. He served as a government minister in different cabinets last of which was

minister of housing and urban development The Minister of Housing is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the government's house-building programme. The position was established in 1938 as Minister in charge of Housing, and has most commonly been known a ...

from 2005 to 2009.

Early life and education

Saeedikia was born in Isfahan in 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Then he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering from

Amirkabir University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی امیرکبیر), also called the Tehran Polytechnic, is a public technological university located in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1928, AUT is the second oldest technical uni ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Career

Saeedikia was the chairman of the urban planning and development corporation. Next he became deputy chief of the economic branch of the foundation of deprived. Later he served in most of the cabinets formed since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. His first cabinet post was the minister of roads and transportation. He held this post first in the cabinet led by Prime Minister

Mir Hossein Mousavi ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...

from 1985 to 1989. He held the same post in the cabinet of 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 ...

from 1989 to 1993. On 29 August 1989, Saeedikia was approved by the Majlis with 195 for and 43 against votes. His tenure ended in 1993. When Mohammad Khatami became president in 1997, Saeedikia was named minister of construction. He was in office from 1997 to 2000. Then he served as advisor to Khatami from 2000 to 2005. On 24 August 2005 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed him the minister of housing and urban development. Saeedikia won the highest for votes at the Majlis, being given 222 votes for by 284 majlis members. His term ended in 2009. He also served as the head of the Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development from May 2008 to August 2009. In January 2010, he was appointed deputy head of the Pars Oil Company. He is head of the

(Foundation of the Oppressed and Disabled), the second-largest commercial enterprise in Iran (behind the state-owned

National Iranian Oil Company The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; fa, شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Īrān) is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of ...

) and biggest

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in the Middle East.

Candidacy for 2013 elections

Saeedikia was the first officially announced candidate for the 2013 presidential election in Iran. He announced his candidacy in December 2012. Due to his career, he was considered to be a traditionalist principlist candidate, but in fact he was an independent and technocrat candidate. Saeedikia was also one of the dark horse candidates. His nomination was rejected by Guardian Council on 21 May 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saeedikia, Mohammad 20th-century Iranian engineers 1946 births Amirkabir University of Technology alumni Government ministers of Iran Impeached Iranian officials Iranian civil engineers Living people Politicians from Isfahan