Morteza Nabavi

Morteza Nabavi is an Iranian politician who served as Minister of Post and Telecommunications from 1981 to 1985. He previously served as editor-in-chief of Resalat newspaper, a former member of the Central Council of the Islamic Society of Engineers, and a member of the Expediency Discernment Council from 2012.

Biography

Morteza Nabavi was born in 1947 in Qazvin. He was politically active during the Shah's regime and was imprisoned for a period. He was a member of the Supreme Council for the Resolution of Disputes between Powers, head of the Research Center for Strategic Development Studies, editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Development Strategy. From 1981 to 1985 he served as the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone in the Cabinet of Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, in the 1981 Interim Government led by Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani and in the first government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. He also served as a deputy in the fourth and fifth convocations of the Islamic Consultative Assembly as a representative of the Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis constituency. Following the 2009 [Iranian presidential election protests] he claimed that the Ahmadinejad government used the crackdown to sideline conservative elements within the regime. From March 14, 2012 he serves as a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.