Mohammad Salamati

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]

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

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]

References

1. "Mohammad Salamati", Near East/North Africa Report, [Executive Office of the President], Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Joint Publications Research Service], 1981, p. 27
2. Alfoneh, Ali (2013), Iran Unveiled: How the Revolutionary Guards Is Transforming Iran from Theocracy into Military Dictatorship, AEI Press, pp. 8–10
3. McLachlan, Keith Stanley (1988). The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran. I.B.Tauris. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-85043-045-2.
4. K. S. McLachlan (subscription required) (1986). "Food Supply and Agricultural Self-Sufficiency in Contemporary Iran". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 49 (1): 148–162. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00042579. JSTOR 617677. S2CID 167397143.
5. Mehrdad Haghayeghi (1990). "Agricultural development planning under the Islamic Republic of Iran". Iranian Studies. 21 (1–4): 5–29. doi:10.1080/00210869008701747 – via Taylor and Francis Online (subscription required).
6. Pesaran, Evaleila (2011), Iran's Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era, Taylor & Francis, p. 76, ISBN 978-1136735578

Party political offices
New title	General Secretary of Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution of Iran Organization 1991–present	Incumbent