Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam

Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam (Persian: غلامرضا مصباحی مقدم, born 11 July 1951 in Mashhad, Iran) is an Iranian conservative politician and the former representative of Tehran in the Iranian parliament. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council and also a member of Assembly of Experts.

Gholamreza Mesbahi-Moghaddam
غلامرضا مصباحی‌مقدم
Member of the Assembly of Experts
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 February 2021
Constituency	Tehran Province
Majority	708,774
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 March 2012
Appointed by	Ali Khamenei
Chairman	Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting) Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Sadeq Larijani
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 28 May 2004 – 28 May 2016
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	286,402 (32.68%)
Personal details
Born	(1951-07-11) July 11, 1951 (age 74) Mashhad, Iran
Political party	Combatant Clergy Association
Children	6[1]
Residence(s)	Tehran, Iran
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Signature
Website	Official website

Biography

Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam was born in 1951 in Mashhad, Iran, to a religious family. ^[2] He had a seminary education and was a student of Fazel Lankarani and Jafar Sobhani to learn advanced levels of jurisprudence and principles. He learned philosophy from Ansari Shirazi, and completed a course of jurisprudence and principles in Vahid Khorasani's classes and achieved ijtihad. ^[3] In addition to his seminary education, Mesbahi Moghadam also has a university education. He has a master's degree in economics and a doctorate in jurisprudence. ^[4]

Executive Records

• Member of the Council of Representatives of the Supreme Leader in Universities (by order of the Supreme Leader) ^[5]
• Member of the Supreme Council for Education and Training for three 4-year terms (elected by the Supreme Council of the Seminary and the Guardian Council as a Mujtahid familiar with education and training)
• Vice President for Research at Imam M. Sadeq University (AS)
• Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Tehran
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Research Institute of Islamic Sciences and Cultural Studies
• Head of the Supreme Leader's Representative Institution at the Islamic Azad University
• Director of the Economics Department of the Seminary-University Cooperation Office
• Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Imam M. Sadeq University (AS)
• Director of the Economics Department and Member of the Council for Reviewing Humanities Texts at Universities
• Representative of the People of Tehran in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (7th Term)
• Member of the Economic Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
• Member of the Supreme Council for Money and Credit
• Member of the Bureau for Combating Economic Corruption
• Member of the Special Commission on Article 44 of the Constitution^[6][7]

Political Records

• Member and Spokesperson of the Society of Combatant Clergy^[8]
• Member of the Council of Center of the Majlis Majority Faction^[9]

Authors

He has also published numerous books and articles, including: ^[10]

• Jurisprudence of Islamic State Financial Resources
• Discourses on the Epistemological and Cognitive Areas of Islamic Economics
• Baitul Mal in Islamic Economics and Finance
• Collection of Economic Articles^[11]