Isa Kalantari (, born 1952 in Marand, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian politician and former vice president, former head of Urmia Lake Restoration Program, and the former head of Department of Environment, serving from 2017 to 2021. He served as minister of agriculture in last year of Khamenei's presidency, in both terms of Rafsanjani's presidency and also in first term of President Khatami. Isa Kalantari lost his elder brother,

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, in Hafte Tir bombing on 28 June 1981. He has a BSc degree of agriculture from

Urmia University Urmia University (, ''Daneshgah-e Orumiyeh''; ) (also known as the University of Urmia) is a public university in West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The main campus of Urmia University is in Nazlu (or Nazloo), in the vicinity of Urmia. It has six ...

, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from

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, and PhD in agricultural physiology from

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. He was a member of the Center for Strategic Research in the

Expediency Discernment Council The Expediency Discernment Council of the System ( ''Majma'-e Tašxis-e Maslahat-e Nezâm'') is an administrative assembly of Iran appointed by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Supreme Leader and was created upon the revision to the Constitution of ...

. In 2001, he founded Iran's House of Farmers and has been serving as its director since then.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalantari, Isa Government ministers of Iran People from Marand Iranian reformists Urmia University alumni Iowa State University alumni 1952 births Living people Iranian chief executives Executives of Construction Party politicians Heads of Department of Environment (Iran) University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni

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