Mohammad Salamati

Mohammad Salamati (Persian: محمد سلامتی) is an Iranian reformist politician and economist.^[1]

Mohammad Salamati
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office 28 May 1988 – 28 May 1992
Constituency	Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Majority	528,209 (33.6%)
Minister of Agriculture
In office 10 September 1980 – 1983
President	Abolhassan Banisadr Mohammad Ali Rajai Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mohammad Ali Rajai Mohammad Javad Bahonar Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Abbas Sheibani
Succeeded by	Abbas-Ali Zali
Personal details
Born	1946 (age 78–79)[1] Kashmar, Iran[1]
Political party	Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization
Other political affiliations	MIRO (1979–83)[2]

Career

Salamati succeeded Reza Esfahani as the agriculture minister in September 1980 and held office until a cabinet change in 1983.^[3] He was an advocate of food self-sufficiency^[4] and believed "all other productive sectors of the economy were to be reoriented to meet the demands of the agricultural sector and not vice versa."^[5] Salamati adopted a decentralization policy and transferred administration and servicing from Tehran to provinces.^[3] In 1989, when he served as a member of the commission on financial and economic affairs in the Iranian Parliament, he criticized positioning Trade-Industrial Free Zones on borders.^[6]