Mostafa Hashemitaba ( fa, مصطفی هاشمی‌طبا; born 22 May 1946) is an Iranian

reformist Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement. Within the socialist movement, reformism is the view that gradual changes through existing institutions can ...

politician. Hashemitaba served as Iran's minister of industries and vice president, as well as head of National Olympic Committee of Iran. He is described as having '

centrist Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to th ...

' views. He was a candidate in the

2001 Iranian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Iran on 8 June 2001, and resulted in Mohammad Khatami being elected as the President of Iran for his second term. Candidates Although 814 candidates registered for the election, including 25 women, the Guardian ...

, and was placed 10th. He was also a

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in the 2017 election. Hashemitaba is co-founder of the

Executives of Construction Party The Executives of Construction of Iran Party ( fa, حزب کارگزاران سازندگی ایران, Hezb-e Kārgozārān-e Sāzandegi-ye Irān) is a reformist political party in Iran, founded by 16 members of the cabinet of the then President ...

and former member of its central committee, known as one of the senior figures among the party's conservative faction. In 2017,

Tasnim News Agency Tasnim News Agency ( fa, خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in Iran. It has links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Launched in 2012, its purpose is to cover a variety of political, social, economic and int ...

wrote that Hashemitaba has not been active in the party since about ten years ago. He focuses on the

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in campaign speeches. Hashemitaba made a cameo in the film ''Jang Athar'' in 1980.

Electoral history

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1946 births Living people Heads of Physical Education Organization Executives of Construction Party politicians Candidates in the 2001 Iranian presidential election Textile engineers Politicians from Isfahan Amirkabir University of Technology alumni {{iran-bio-stub