Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei
Iranian politician
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| Intro | Iranian politician | |
| Places | Iran | |
| is | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1936, Rafsanjan | |
| Age | 89 years |
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Biography
Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Shirazi (Persian: سید مهدی طباطبایی شیرازی) is an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who served a member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr; and 1984 to 1988 representing Mashhad and Kalat.
He has been described as a "well-known moderate conservative cleric".
Views
Tabatabaei is a critic of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and supporter of the Iran deal.
In 2009, he said he wished "he had died but not seen the post-election incidents in Iran."