Mohammad Hazratpour (
Persian
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: محمد حضرت پور, born 1982 in
Urmia
Urmia (; ) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is situated near the borders of Iran with Turkey and Iraq.
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,
West Azerbaijan province
West Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia.
It is in the northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey ( Ağrı, Hakkâri, Iğdır and Van Provinces), Iraq ( Erbil and Sula ...
,
Iran
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) is an Iranian politician and the forty-first mayor of Urmia. He was elected by the
city council
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of Urmia in June 2012.
He graduated with an associate degree in Electronics, then received a master's degree in political science.
Hazratpour had external relations with the mayors of
Erzurum
Erzurum (; ) is a List of cities in Turkey, city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. It is the site of an ...
,
Turkey
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and consul general of Turkey in Urmia. He also expanded
Shahrdari Urmia F.C. and
Shahrdari Urmia VC. His nephew,
Rohollah Hazratpour
Ruhollah Hazratpour (; born 1984) is an Iranian politician. He was born in Urmia, West Azerbaijan province. He was a member of the 10th and 11th Islamic Consultative Assembly
The Islamic Consultative Assembly (), also called the Iranian Par ...
, is the member of parliament from Urmia.
Hazratpour was arrested in January 2019, and officially resigned from the position of mayor on January 31 of that year. Subsequently, the city council elected his deputy mayor,
Gholamreza Adaldoost, to the position of mayor. He was released on bail, but was arrested again for falsification of bail in April 2021.
In May 2021, the Kurdistan Human Rights Association reported that Hazratpour, along with six other prisoners in the Central Prison in Urmia, went on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the prison.
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Living people
People from Urmia
1982 births
Mayors of places in Iran