Fatemeh Javadi (, also
Romanized
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as “Fāteme(h) Javādī”; born 1959) is a conservative
Iran
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ian politician who was
Vice President of Iran
First vice president of Iran () is defined by article 124 of the Constitution of Iran as anyone appointed by the President of Iran to lead an organization related to presidential affairs in Iran. , there are fourteen vice presidents. The first vic ...
from 2005 to 2009. She is the niece of Ayatollah
Javadi Amoli.
Education
Javadi holds a doctorate in geology and is currently teaching at the
University of Shiraz in southern Iran.
Career and policies
After the election of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born Mahmoud Sabbaghian on 28 October 1956) is an Iranian Iranian principlists, principlist and Iranian nationalism, nationalist politician who served as the sixth president of Iran from 2005 to 2013. He is currently a mem ...
as
President of Iran
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, Javadi was appointed Vice-President and Head of the Department of the Environment (DoE). Javadi replaced
Masoumeh Ebtekar
Masoumeh Ebtekar (; born 21 September 1960) is an Iranian politician. A Reformist, she headed the country's Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017, after which she served as the Vice President for Women and ...
, who held the post under
Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami (born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992. Later, he was critic ...
. Javadi's main responsibility was to oversee the state Environmental Protection Organization. She and
Nasrin Soltankhah were the only women in the cabinet.
Javadi articulated some of her plans for the DoE. She stated that she would work towards the goals of institutionalizing the culture of protecting the environment, boosting public awareness about environmental considerations on the basis of sustainable development, holding environmental training courses from kindergarten all the way up to the universities, and focusing the DoE on the facilitation of research.
In November 2007, Javadi organized a circus in
Pardisan Park in
Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...
. She was criticized by Iranian NGOs and activists for the circus's abuse of animals.
When Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president in 2009, Javadi was replaced by Mohammad-Javad Mohammadizadeh.
References
External links
Female Vice-Presents and Deputy Heads of StateIran gets woman Vice-President
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Iranian paleontologists
Heads of Department of Environment (Iran)
Women vice presidents of Iran
Living people
1959 births
People from Qom
People from Amol
Shiraz University alumni
21st-century Iranian women politicians
21st-century Iranian politicians