Ali-Akbar Parvaresh


Ali Akbar Parvaresh was an Iranian politician. He was Minister of Education from 1981 to 1985 and also a parliament member for three terms, first elected in 1980 and served again from 1988 to 1996. He was a presidential candidate twice, thefirst time in July 1981 election which he received 401,035 and the second time in October 1981 election gained 341,841 and ranked second after Ali Khamenei. He was deputy to Secretary-General of Islamic Coalition Party until 2001.