Mohammad Eslami

Mohammad Eslami (Persian: محمد اسلامی; born 23 September 1956) is the vice president and head of the Atomic Energy Organization in the government of President Raisi and was the Minister of Roads and Urban development and the Governor of Mazandaran province in the government of Hassan Rouhani.^[1]

Mohammad Eslami
محمد اسلامی
Eslami in 2024
7th Head of the Atomic Energy Organization
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 August 2021
President	Ebrahim Raisi Mohammad Mokhber (acting) Masoud Pezeshkian
Preceded by	Ali Akbar Salehi
3rd Minister of Roads and Urban Development
In office 27 October 2018 – 25 August 2021 Acting: 20 October – 27 October 2018
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi
Succeeded by	Rostam Ghasemi
Governor-general of Mazandaran
In office 29 October 2017 – 20 October 2018
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Rabi Fallah Jelodar
Succeeded by	Ahmad Hosseinzadegan
Personal details
Born	(1956-09-23) 23 September 1956 (age 68) Isfahan, Iran
Alma mater	University of Detroit Mercy Ohio University Royal Roads University Sharif University of Technology

In 2008, the United Nations sanctioned Eslami, then the head of Iran's Defense Industries Training and Research Institute, for "being engaged in, directly associated with or providing support for Iran's proliferation of sensitive nuclear activities or for the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems."^[2]

In 2024, Iranian state TV reported that Eslami had been reappointed head of Iran's civilian nuclear program by the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.^[2]