Seyyed
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Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei () is an Iranian lawyer. According to the ''
New York Times
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'', he is "one of the most influential" and "well connected" lawyers to highest leaders in Iran.
He was a member of
City Council of Tehran
The Islamic City Council of Tehran () is the directly elected council that presides over the city of Tehran, elects the mayor of Tehran in a mayor–council government system, and budgets of the Municipality of Tehran.
The council is composed ...
from 1999 to 2003.
He is well known as one of the attorneies for the
Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani (25 August 19348 January 2017) was an Iranian cleric, politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997. One of the founding fathers of the Islamic Republic, Rafsanjani was the ...
family.
Alizadeh-Tabatabaei has also represented
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh (, ; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian politician, artist, architect and opposition figure who served as the 45th and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 Iranian p ...
,
Zahra Rahnavard
Zahra Rahnavard (; born Zohreh Kazemi; 19 August 1945) is an Iranian academic, artist and politician. Rahnavard is a university professor, artist, and intellectual who was under house arrest from February 2011 to May 2018. In 2009, Foreign Poli ...
,
,
,
and Mohammad Ali Taheri
among others.
References
Biography at City Council of Tehran websiteInterview with ''Shargh'' daily
1953 births
Living people
20th-century Iranian lawyers
Tehran Councillors 1999–2003
People from Isfahan province
Imperial Iranian Air Force personnel
Executives of Construction Party politicians
21st-century Iranian lawyers
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